Podere Valcellino
Property # 8530

The ancient Podere Valcellino has been thoroughly renovated and all of its apartments are comfortable and luminous and have separate entrance and a private outdoor area with table and chairs.

The farm is in a favourable position, being not too far from both Florence and Siena, and even closer to the historical city of Arezzo and to the Chianti hills

Listing Type: Vacation Rental
Bedrooms: 5 separate apartments
Sleeps: 2 to 20

Dishwasher
Washer/Dryer
Cable TV

This characteristic and wonderful apartment once used to be the villa's stable. Vaulted brick ceilings with their original wooden beams. Rustic stone wallsbrick-tiled floors. Living-room with perfectly equipped kitchenette and stone fire-place. Two bedroomsone with double bed and the other with 2 twin beds. The living-room features a sofa seating two and convertible into a single bed. Bathroom with shower. Outdoor private area with table and chairs. Private washing-machinemicrowave ovenfridge.
ANNA MARIAThe BOTANIC PARK
The guests of Valcellino have access to a swimming-pool surrounded by lawns and above all to the precious botanic park.
OUTDOORSThe English gardenfree in its appearance and order contrasted with the formal rigid and geometrical style which was typical of the Italian renaissance and baroque periodwas introduced by the French architects in their home country as the original French gardenthe prototype being the abundant Park of the Versailles Palace.

Della Nave Park was built in the second half of the 19th century and became part of the landscape gardens which arose in Italy from the late 18th to the late 19th centurya period when this widespread style of garden was known as the English or Naturalistic one.
Very widespread in this era and of great interest to collectors was that they used a great number of special vegetationusually exhotic. It was in fact in fashion to create Exhotic botanical gardens and the Parco Della Nave is a symbolic example with its rare and extremely interesting Botanical collection.
BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS

The plants found commonly today in the garden were to become an integral part of the Tuscan landscape.
Indeedthe owner Ferdinando Della Navea botanical expert and the creator and designer of the parkrestored good relationships with other passionate and celebrated botanics of the period. They were either Florentines (Mercatelli) or foreigners but above all EnglishBelgian and French (Vilmorin).
In the Parco Della Nave the predominant style of the collection is testimonial to the considerable amount of species of trees found (120)not to mention the high number (the long-trunked trees alone are more than 700). Plants come from all over the world and today can be found in specialist nurseries; however at the time when the park was built they were rare and difficult to find.

His scientific background and his intuition allowed them to use the most suitable plants either foreign or local for the pedological and climatic conditions. He dedicated his life to the most interesting Botanical collections not to mention a park so exclusive and refined in a relatively extensive space (around 32 000mq). APARTMENT LUIGI
first floor unit located where the old drying room used to bevery bright and with a marvellous view. Brick-tiled floorstypical wooden beamed ceilings.
Private outdoor area with table and chairs. Washing-machine (in a laundry-room at ground floorto be shared with another unit)microwave ovenfridgeSat TVphoneindependent heatingiron and relative board.

APARTMENT IRENE
First floor unit with beautiful little terracevery bright and panoramic. Brick walls and wooden beamed ceilings.
Private outdoor area with tabla and chairs. Washing-machine (in a laundry-room at ground floorto be shared with another unit)microwave ovenfridgeSat TVphoneindependent heatingiron and relative board.

APARTMENT FRANCESCA
This used to be the farmer's home and is placed at the first floor.
Very bright unit with a wonderful vista on the surrounding hills. Brick walls. Bathroom with shower. Outdoor private area with table and chairs. Private washing-machinemicrowave ovenfridgeSat TVphoneindependent heatingiron and relative board.

MARIA CHIARA
Typical ground floor unit where once were the villa’s cellar and henhouse. Brick-tiled floors. Ancient wooden beams on the ceilingsand rustic original stone walls. Outdoor private area with table and chairs. Private washing-machinemicrowave ovenfridgeSat TVphoneindependent heatingiron and relative board.