Location: Cortona in Italy
Nearest Airport:
Florence at 105
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Nearest Ferry:
Livorno at 150
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Nearest Train:
Camucia-Cortona at 15
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Nearest Motorway:
Sinalunga-Bettole at 30
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Nearest Beach:
beach at 12
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Car: necessary
In a secluded and unspoilt location, 20 minutes' drive above and beyond the medieval hill town of Cortona in South East Tuscany, our tiny mountain hamlet perches on the side of a wooded Tiber tributary valley, with views across Umbria to the Apennines. Apart from historic Cortona, with its Renaissance treasures and imaginative Etruscan museum, tempting day trips by car include Assisi, Perugia, Siena, Gubbio and Arezzo ,while Rome and Florence lie under 2 hours away by fast train. Local wine, olive oil, pecorino cheese and wild boar sausage can be sampled in the trattorias or tasted at the cantinas of Montepulciano/Montalcino and in the many specialist outlets. Art afficionados will appreciate the proximity to works not found in the Uffizi, viewable in their original context, frescoes for example by Piero della Francesca. This area, crisscrossed by St Francis, boasts many sites dedicated to him and to Cortona's own saint, Margarita. Music, art and gastronomic festivals abound.
