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Area description for Garfagnana Holiday house

Type: Villa • Bedrooms: 3 • Sleeps: 8 • Catering: Self-catering

Rates per week: 400.00 €

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Low season 400.00 € Change currency
High season 450.00 € Change currency

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Special offer FOR SUMMER 2008 for you or your friends !

1 WEEK FROM 15 - 22 JUNE ITALY, IN A TUSCANY HOLIDAY HOUSE

ONLY 410 € (6 PERSONS, CLEANING INCLUDED)

  • Cleaning costs not included 50€ .
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Reservations & Contacts

Garfagnana Holiday house/Ref: 5721
Owner Name Mr Fabio Terrmine
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Lucca

Barga hosts art, opera and jazz festivals as well as weekly markets & great local restaurants. Locally there are lots of interesting towns & villages to visit like Castelnouvo Garfagnana with its local market day, there are also supermarkets closeby.
Lucca is the nearest main town - 45 minutes by car, bus or train - a beautiful walled city, a must to cycle the city walls, home of Puccini & great shopping. The region has fantastic unspoilt countryside, very tranquil & perfect to chill out, there are national parks closeby and breathtaking hill top perched villages. The beaches of Forte dei Marmi - Tuscanys playground for the wealthy are 1 hours drive away. Bigger cities are also easily reached - Pisa 1 hour, Florence 90 minutes.

Barga

Barga is situated 35 kilometres north of Lucca at the southern end of the spectacularly beautiful area known as the Garfagnana which sits between the Apuan Alps and the Appenines in the very north of Tuscany.
The small hilltop town of Barga (altitude 410 metres) is dominated by the fine cathedral, which houses an excellent marble pulpit and some works of the Della Robbia school. An important centre of the Garfagnana, it has wonderful views of the whole area and the town itself is a charming network of narrow streets, archways and winding stairways.
The upper (and older) part of the town is to be explored on foot and has all sorts of hidden alleyways and tight staircases leading to who knows where - the streets play host to an unusual 'Living Nativity' pageant each Christmas.The town grew up around an ancient Lombard castle and was surrounded by a wall with three separate gates. Besieged at different times by both Pisa and Lucca, it eventually became part of the Florentine state and stayed so until 1859.
After you have trekked all the way up, relax a while on the paved terrace in front of the Duomo that offers a wonderful 'viewing platform' over the surrounding rooftops, terraced hills and distant mountains.
Barga hosts art, opera and jazz festivals as well as weekly markets, great local restaurants, swimming pool, riding school.
Locally there are lots of interesting towns & villages to visit like Castelnouvo Garfagnana with its local market day.

Lucca - Garfagnana

Garfagnana, with its mountains and its woods, is a fruitful valley, rich in history and traditions, that, crossed by the Serchio river and its tributaries, divides the Apuane Alps from Appennino Tosco-Emiliano. The influence of two such different surrounding areas has promoted the development of an original landascape, very special not only for geography but also for culture. Within easy travelling distance from famous artistic cities like Lucca, Pisa and Florence, Garfagnana offers an unpolluted environment, where you can fully immerse yourself - walking on the paths of the valley , going on horseback or by bike, or along the old mule-tracks, which lead you to discover picturesque villages, traditions and the history of this land. The region has fantastic unspoilt countryside, very tranquil & perfect to chill out, there are national parks closeby and breathtaking hill top perched villages.

Tuscany

From the Etruscans to the Romans to the Renaissance, Tuscany is possibly the greatest repository of art in the world, from extraordinary paintings and sculpture to frescoes and architectural masterpieces.
Visitors to Tuscany come for many reasons. Many come in search of fine art, others to explore the extraordinary countryside.
Gourmets and wine buffs descend on Tuscany to enjoy the simple yet wonderful cuisine and wine. Walkers enjoy the mountain paths, cyclists the rolling hills, summer vacationers the sea coast and islands. Students come to learn the beautiful Italian language and culture.
There is a lot to see and do in Tuscany, the difficulty is really where to start. Certainly most should start with Florence, then continue on to Siena and Pisa. The roll call of città di arte, cities of art, is daunting: Arezzo, Cortona, San Gimignano and Lucca are all striking. The more you come to know the region, the more extraordinary Tuscany appears Tuscany was the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, and its artistic heritage includes architecture, painting and sculpture, collected in dozens of museums, the best-known of which is the Uffizi and the Bargello in Florence, but also in many other towns and cities in the region.
Tuscany is a charmed land, equally blessed by the genius of man and nature, and often by the combined efforts of both. Think of the vineyards: rows of baby green vines that manage somehow to march in arrow-straight formation up the gently rolling hillsides,bounded by single files of darker green cypress trees, snaking sandy roads leading to rust-colored farmhouses and moss-coated
castles, symmetrically rounded hilltops surmounted by towns so homogeneous as to seem one single building. Every inch of land has been sculpted, first by the elements and then by generations of inhabitants whose goals were always twofold: make the land produce as much as possible, make the land as beautiful as possible.