Farm holidays at Fattoria di Marena Tuscany Casentino

Restored farmhouses are situated near the XVII century Villa and the garden or stand alone in the surrounding countryside. They can guest a maximum of 10 families. All of them are old houses restored and furnished in a simple but tasteful way. The farm offers self-catering farm holidays in ample apartments or detached farm houses: each accommodation has an independent entrance, a fitted out kitchen, garden-table and seats to enjoy the lanscape of Tuscany. Each house has its own history and athmosphere.
The farm offers:
a large swimming-pool (8X15X1.4m)
with tiled solarium and a large panoramic meadow, deck chairs, dressing rooms;
a riding school
with horses and ponies for children and horse therapy, with covered ground, Teacher speaking English;
a little mountain bike rental;
washing machine and maid service on request;
fax and internet facilities;
(some more services for your holidays are listed in our web-pages)
... and prices, anyway, are absolutely affordable!

At Fattoria di Marena you can be sure of relaxing farm holidays in Tuscany

... in a place which is both quiet and easily accessible: the village of Bibbiena is only 2 km away from the farm, and offers supermarkets, shops, weekly markets, restaurants.
In the surroundings: Tennis courts; golf course; fishing (angling) lake; Italian school; library; ... are only a few kms away.
The farm consists of 170 hectares (425 acres ) so divided: fields where sunflowers, wheat and alpha-alfa grass are grown, for about 50 hectars, meadows where the farm cattle live for about 30 hectars, 90 hectars of woods (close to the farm houses we have high-trunk woods of fir, pine, oaks). The farm offers foothpaths and is a good place for birdwatching. The farm breed a "family" of about 30 cows, a bull and calfes: all them are pedigreed Chianina race animals. Close to them live the horses of the riding school. We have a hen-house with a nice family of assorted hens, rooster, goose, too.

Farm holidays in Tuscany, a special view of Casentino Valley, Poppi Bibbiena

Casentino valley in Tuscany is famous for monastries (Vallombrosa, La Verna, Camaldoli), romanesque churches ("pievi"), castles (Poppi Castle, Romena Castle, Porciano etc) and villages from the middle ages , memories of Dante and S. Francesco of Assisi. Here you can find masterpieces of Della Robbia and painters like Sandro Botticelli, Domenico del Ghirlandaio and Bicci di Lorenzo. Being the valley shaped like a basket it has mountains (1000-1600 meters high) all around. The landscape is great, breathtaking . Village and sites are not overcrowded, actually, and that make siteseeingh enjoyable expecially if you are traveling with children for your farm holidays in Tuscany. The valley is also known for some typical products like Panno Casentino tissue, Casentino's ham and cheese, restaurants offer tastefull typical dishes.
The Foreste Casentinesi National Park sets on the mountains, protecting a large forest where different kind of deer, wild boar, eagles and even the wolf use to live. Arezzo , only 30 km away, is famous for the largest ANTIQUARIA market of the all Italy (each month, 1th sunday) for the marvelous old town, for the Saracino Giostra (twice a Year) and for the Piero della Francesca masterpieces. Florence is only 55 km away. From the valley you can easly reach also Umbria (Trasimeno lake, Assisi, Spello). Excursions to Rome and the Adriatic Coast (Rimini, Cervia) are also a possibility.