If in addition to a wonderful holiday you want to enjoy an experience in the past, just 35 Km from Florence, this could be an excellent opportunity: The first historical mention of this watchtower of the Conti Guidi, “for the defense and toll of the Reggello Pass” dates back to 900 A.D. The property has been owned by our family since 1936, when my ancestor Doctor Gino Castelli purchased it and began its conservative restoration. The residence of about 300 square meters has just been refreshed and optimized in the various modern comforts such as air conditioning, wi-fi system, heating, video surveillance, comfortable mattresses, safe ... always respecting the architecture and history of the property, which is spread over two floors. The property, a portion of a villa, has its own independent entrance that opens into a large garden with centuries-old oak and cypress trees and a large lime tree. For the exclusive use of guests there is a 13m x 6m swimming pool, with a changing room and a bathroom.

Hi everyone, Fabio and I have been married for a lifetime and now we are both retired! We prefer to live in the countryside and our hobbies are: managing our garden, the vegetable garden, our olive groves and why not, a dip in the pool after so much work! Owned by our family since 1936, when my grandfather, Doctor Gino Castelli, purchased this property with some buildings, land with olive groves on “balze” fields, chestnut and fir woods… Today the property, which has become an agritourism business, is also managed by my son Francesco and his wife Mirta. They too, together with my two beautiful granddaughters, have decided to move to the countryside very close to this historic residence to carry on our ancestor's dream and to put into practice everything my father taught me about the countryside, wine, oil, honey... Our experience in tourist rentals began 14 years ago on two small apartments in the historic center of Florence. We are aware of how important the cleanliness of the environments is for every traveler in addition to the consistency of the residence to what is indicated and promised on the site and equally the friendliness and availability of the owners.

Reggello, Tuscany, Italy The house is located at 520m above sea level, in a key position to admire the Arno Valley, showing a fantastic glimpse of the Tuscan countryside. The surrounding land, with “fields with terraces” is cultivated with olive trees; where the cultivated land ends, the chestnut, pine, fir and beech woods begin and in Autumn and late Spring, if the weather and climate conditions are favourable, it is possible to go and look for porcini mushrooms and many other species and on foot it is also possible to reach a stream where, if you are lucky, you can still find trout. How to get around the area? Florence can be reached easily both by car and by train from Figline Valdarno station, which is just 15 minutes away by car. The train takes you directly to the center of Florence (Santa Maria Novella Central Station) without forcing guests to search for expensive parking. Directly from the Palazzaccio you can reach the most interesting cities in Tuscany in a day, considering that Siena is only 100 kilometers away (75 minutes by car), Pisa 120 kilometers (about 100 minutes), Montepulciano 92 kilometers (about 70 minutes), the beaches of Versilia and Forte dei Marmi about 137 kilometers (about 100 minutes), Lucca 116 kilometers (about 90 minutes)…