Matraia

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Rates & avialability per week

Period	Price
Low season - from	550.00 €
Low season - to	650.00 €
Middle season - from	700.00 €
Middle season - to	850.00 €
High season - from	950.00 €
High season - to	1050.00 €

Timetables: check in from 4 p. m. and check out within 1 p. m. Availability: People interested in this holiday home are kindly invited to contact us by e-mail or by cell-phone. Deposit:30% of the total is required as a deposit.

• The prices are indicative and can vary according to the lenght of the stay and the number of guests. *During low season an additional charge of 30 euros a week is required for heating expenses.
• Lighting, water, gas, tv, final cleaning expenses are included.

Reservations & Contacts

Matraia/Ref: 6045
Owner Name	Mrs Laura Chiocciora
Tel	+39 339 1143615
E-mail	Send E-mail
* Please, mention HolidayHomes.ORG

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Home description

This country cottage is situated in a quiet and lovely place that can be easily reached. The house can accomodate as many as eight people and it is divided into two parts connected by a large hall, on the left side there is a sitting room with a fireplace on the ground floor, upstairs there is a double berdroom, a small single bedroom and a shower bathroom. On the right side there is the kitchen-dining room a living room with another fireplace, a double bedroom, a single bedroom, another bedroom wich can be furnished with a single bed or twin beds as required, a bathroom with bathtub.Outside in the large garden there is a barbecue with a brickwork oven for pizza and bread and there is the entrance to the laundry room equipped with the washing-machine, the heater and all the necessary tools for cleaning. There is also a gate leading to the wood-shed and near the barbecue there is a kiwibower under which there is a big table where you can eat in summer. Moreover there is a lot of parking space and an orchard interspersed with olive trees (about an hectare, i. e. about 2,5 acres)Facilities: heating, oven, fridge/freezer, dishwasher, washing-machine, two colour Tv sets, Dvd player, hair dryer, barbecue and oven for pizza, linen, parking space.

Location

The Province of Lucca is divided into 34 municipalities; only 6 of them are in the plain. One of the largest in Italy is the municipality of Capannori with its 40 hamlets. The other centres are Altopascio, Montecarlo, Porcari and the small commune of Villa Basilica. The Piana di Lucca is of course flat, but it is surrounded by beautiful hills set against the background of the Pizzorne highlands on one side and the Monti Pisani on the other.

The origin of most villages is Medieval, but recent archaeological excavations have shown that settlements existed in this area since the Bronze Age. After, the territory remained uninhabited for a long time; however, from the beginning of the Vth century B.C., the Etruscans appeared in the region of Fossa nera near Porcari followed, much later, by the Romans.

With the arrival of the Lombards and the creation of new roads, among them the Via Francigena, the population begun to increase. Because of the frequent passage of armies and mercenary troops the villages were fortified; the unhealthy conditions in the plain, especially close to the marshes around the lake of Bientina, prompted the inhabitants to move to the hills.

The Piana di Lucca with its suggestive landscape and well rooted folklore has, therefore, a very rich history.