Tuscany - perfect accommodation!
Sep 15th, 2005, 09:19 AM
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Tuscany - perfect accommodation!
Based on an Internet review dated September 2004, we decided to book our summer vacation at Foresteria Il Giardino di Fontarronco since location and type of accommodation were corresponding as what we were looking for.
We booked directly from the owner and we paid a very reasonable weekly price. Our choice wasn’t so easy because in Tuscany there are thousand of Villas, agriturismos and farmhouses, but after we check in we immediately understood that our decision to book at Foresteria was absolutely right. The first impression we felt at arrival was like to introduce our self into a different world….. The Garden was very well care and the atmosphere very special….! The girls who we met Justina and Eva are absolutely wonderful! They brought us to the unit (we reserve a double bedroom unit called Granaio) and gave us information about area and restaurants in the surrounding.
Our unit was very well decorated and very comfortable. 30 square meters spread on living room with a small kitchen, a double bedroom (the bed is a queen size) and the bathroom.
On the property there is also a restaurant but opens just twice a week! On Monday and Thursday night! We only complain that the restaurant was too good to be open just 2 nights!. The food is definitely the best we had during our vacation! Especially the beef, the zucchini soufflé and the Tiramisù! The staff is friendly and young and is always available on the ground to talk or give you some advices. We usually don’t like big Resort and family atmosphere was what we were looking for. We found it at Foresteria. The agriturismo is just perfect! The location, the food, the staff! They made feel our self at home mostly of the time we where there.
Overall, the location is excellent! We moved to most important sights in Tuscany! Upon Francesco’s advice (Francesco is the owner), we have been also to Florence by train and was comfortable and easy - just 30 minutes! There are 2 or 3 trains every hour from Arezzo station. It is just 5 minutes driving away. We’ve been to Assisi and Gubbio as well. Assisi is 70 kms by car, Gubbio is just a bit farer, however, easy to reach.
Our favourite village, however, was Civitella! Civitella is still an original Tuscan village, where fe found any tourists! It is a medieval hill top village destroyed during the second war of the world and a bit reformed. Now there are a couple of small and typical restaurants, one of them has a terrace on the main square of the castle, the view is just unbelievable!
We definitely recommend the Foresteria to everyone, we think the Foresteria is just PERFECT!
We hope to come back in the future, hopefully with some friends and rent one bigger unit!
Veronique and Paul Marsot
We booked directly from the owner and we paid a very reasonable weekly price. Our choice wasn’t so easy because in Tuscany there are thousand of Villas, agriturismos and farmhouses, but after we check in we immediately understood that our decision to book at Foresteria was absolutely right. The first impression we felt at arrival was like to introduce our self into a different world….. The Garden was very well care and the atmosphere very special….! The girls who we met Justina and Eva are absolutely wonderful! They brought us to the unit (we reserve a double bedroom unit called Granaio) and gave us information about area and restaurants in the surrounding.
Our unit was very well decorated and very comfortable. 30 square meters spread on living room with a small kitchen, a double bedroom (the bed is a queen size) and the bathroom.
On the property there is also a restaurant but opens just twice a week! On Monday and Thursday night! We only complain that the restaurant was too good to be open just 2 nights!. The food is definitely the best we had during our vacation! Especially the beef, the zucchini soufflé and the Tiramisù! The staff is friendly and young and is always available on the ground to talk or give you some advices. We usually don’t like big Resort and family atmosphere was what we were looking for. We found it at Foresteria. The agriturismo is just perfect! The location, the food, the staff! They made feel our self at home mostly of the time we where there.
Overall, the location is excellent! We moved to most important sights in Tuscany! Upon Francesco’s advice (Francesco is the owner), we have been also to Florence by train and was comfortable and easy - just 30 minutes! There are 2 or 3 trains every hour from Arezzo station. It is just 5 minutes driving away. We’ve been to Assisi and Gubbio as well. Assisi is 70 kms by car, Gubbio is just a bit farer, however, easy to reach.
Our favourite village, however, was Civitella! Civitella is still an original Tuscan village, where fe found any tourists! It is a medieval hill top village destroyed during the second war of the world and a bit reformed. Now there are a couple of small and typical restaurants, one of them has a terrace on the main square of the castle, the view is just unbelievable!
We definitely recommend the Foresteria to everyone, we think the Foresteria is just PERFECT!
We hope to come back in the future, hopefully with some friends and rent one bigger unit!
Veronique and Paul Marsot
Sep 15th, 2005, 09:31 AM
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And so interesting that you make a point of telling times and/or distances to places by BOTH car and train. Which did you do? You did train you say to Florence, so I'd assume you had no car there, yet you quote times in driving to other places. If I'm traveling from a place by train, I doubt I'd know or even care how long it took to drive to those other places. But by the way, how did you get to and from the train station from this place?
I'd love to believe this is an honest and totally unsolicited post, but one must always question a post that reads like an ad when the poster did not find another thing on the whole trip worth posting about -- only this single accommodation, for which she went to the trouble of registering here just to tell us about.
I'd love to believe this is an honest and totally unsolicited post, but one must always question a post that reads like an ad when the poster did not find another thing on the whole trip worth posting about -- only this single accommodation, for which she went to the trouble of registering here just to tell us about.
Oct 26th, 2005, 10:15 PM
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I don't know Veronique, but I can totally vouch for what she wrote. My husband and I stayed at the Foresteria il Giardino di Fontarronco for a week during our summer vacation and have only good things to say about it.
The nice and professional website says it all - the owner, Francesco, has spared no expense in making the Foresteria truly magnificent.
We stayed in Betto, which is near the old well on the far side of the main villa. We chose this apartment because it was the lowest price (what do you expect from two med students!) and just loved it. The apartment was clean, cute and quaint. The furniture was like out of a country cottage...the kind I'd expect in the south of France or (appropriately) Tuscany. The kitchen had a full size fridge and even though we didn't actually need it, the mosquito net over the bed just added to the romantic feel.
Anyway, we stayed at the Foresteria after a week of sightseeing in Venice and then Rome, and all we wanted to do was relax. This was truly the perfect place to do just that. Our room had a very private little terrace with picnic table where we would picnic with breakfast and lunch every day. Speaking of breakfast, Roberto, the baker who delivers sweets every morning was so helpful and from what I sampled while traveling, VERY good at what he does! (The cream filled croissants are to die for!!) Usually after our leisurely breakfast we would then stroll past the apple and pear trees, over to the pool. Of course walking around the canals in Venice is mesmerizing and exploring the ruins of Ancient Rome is memorable, but nothing we experienced in Italy was as UNIQUE as laying by the pool and listening to the birds chirp and the fruit pickers in the distance chatter away in the beautiful song-like Italian language. Occasionally Francesco would come around to see how we were doing, and on several afternoons we sat and chatted with him for a bit before he left to go prepare dinner.
The dinners!! My goodness, we thought we were stuffed after all the pizzas we'd eaten in Rome, but somehow we managed to find the room for these home-cooked Tuscan meals that were course after course of exquisite food. And the wine was also so good ... these dinners were a great way to end the days.
If you have the chance, I HIGHLY reccomend staying at the Foresteria il Giardino di Fontarronco. You won't be disappointed!!
Sofia and Jeff
Hoboken, New Jersey
The nice and professional website says it all - the owner, Francesco, has spared no expense in making the Foresteria truly magnificent.
We stayed in Betto, which is near the old well on the far side of the main villa. We chose this apartment because it was the lowest price (what do you expect from two med students!) and just loved it. The apartment was clean, cute and quaint. The furniture was like out of a country cottage...the kind I'd expect in the south of France or (appropriately) Tuscany. The kitchen had a full size fridge and even though we didn't actually need it, the mosquito net over the bed just added to the romantic feel.
Anyway, we stayed at the Foresteria after a week of sightseeing in Venice and then Rome, and all we wanted to do was relax. This was truly the perfect place to do just that. Our room had a very private little terrace with picnic table where we would picnic with breakfast and lunch every day. Speaking of breakfast, Roberto, the baker who delivers sweets every morning was so helpful and from what I sampled while traveling, VERY good at what he does! (The cream filled croissants are to die for!!) Usually after our leisurely breakfast we would then stroll past the apple and pear trees, over to the pool. Of course walking around the canals in Venice is mesmerizing and exploring the ruins of Ancient Rome is memorable, but nothing we experienced in Italy was as UNIQUE as laying by the pool and listening to the birds chirp and the fruit pickers in the distance chatter away in the beautiful song-like Italian language. Occasionally Francesco would come around to see how we were doing, and on several afternoons we sat and chatted with him for a bit before he left to go prepare dinner.
The dinners!! My goodness, we thought we were stuffed after all the pizzas we'd eaten in Rome, but somehow we managed to find the room for these home-cooked Tuscan meals that were course after course of exquisite food. And the wine was also so good ... these dinners were a great way to end the days.
If you have the chance, I HIGHLY reccomend staying at the Foresteria il Giardino di Fontarronco. You won't be disappointed!!
Sofia and Jeff
Hoboken, New Jersey
Oct 27th, 2005, 03:24 AM
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Strange that this same review shows up on many travel boards every few months almost to a word and from someone who has just registered. #-0
It may be that this accomodation is all that the poster claims but at least for me it has an adverse effect.
Maybe I'm just cynical but it sounds a little too PERFECT !
It may be that this accomodation is all that the poster claims but at least for me it has an adverse effect.
Maybe I'm just cynical but it sounds a little too PERFECT !
Oct 27th, 2005, 10:46 PM
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Unfortunately for you, it'd be your own loss not to stay here. We wished we could have stayed longer, and I just wanted to share our good luck with others. If you want to experience the true tuscany, and not just the traffic and tourist traps of some other popular destinations, then i can't imagine a better place than the Foresteria!
