Tenuta La Fortezza

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The hospitality is offered in various apartment, recently restored with particular emphasis on rustic elements like stone and wood.

Services incluced in the price: TV, laundry, electricity, water, gas and wood-burning stove available if required. The garden is equipped with swing park for children. There is an external oven, barbecue, swimming pool and car parking available.

Castelnuovo di Garfagnana

Situated at an altitude of 277 metres, Castelnuovo is the principal town and the heart of the green Garfagnana area, a territory that constitutes the northern part of the valley of the Serchio River, which runs between the mountain walls of the Apuan Alps and the Appenines. The town is 40 km from both Lucca and the Versilia coast.

The ancient outlying villages of Palleroso, Monterotondo, Antisciana, Gragnanella, Cerretoli, Colle and Rontano are beautifully situated and accessible on country paths through "green woodland". A walk to these villages allows visitors to be in contact with nature and at the same time to discover the traditional daily rhythms of an agricultural people and to admire their rural architecture.

The town's patron is St Peter, with his feast day on 29 june.

The main festivities include the Carnival, with its procession of floats and masked celebrants, Commerce Week in August, and the traditional September Fair featuring folklore, sport, music, gastronomy and artisan activities, But all the way from June to October there is continuos cultural activity, with the outlying villages featuring traditional popular events. From Castelnuovo the most important torist sites of the Serchio Valley can be quickly reached. There is trekking on foot or on horseback, mountains-bike itineraries, modern and efficient sports facilities for any sort of activity from swimming to tennis, football and athletics.

THE CASTLE AND THE WALLS
The Castle of Castelnuovo presents itself substantially renaissance being of course the result of continuous adequate restorations carried out throught out many centuries.The original structure dates back to the 11 century, probably a tower-house. Subsequent additions were carried out particulary during the Lucchese domination under Castruccio Castracane degli Antelminelli , who built a large section of the town walls, and under Paolo Guinigi. When Castelnuovo became principal town of the Este province the castle became the seat of government and dwelling of the commissars. While maintaining its original structure, it underwent various modifications to adapt it to its new functions. Serious damage was caused to the building, as to the rest of the town, during the second world war and farreaching post-war restoration has had the effect of altering the structure itself.