Location: Villa Collemandina in Italy
Nearest Airport:
PISA at 70
Kilometres
Car: recommended
Within walking distance are the local tennis courts and the village of Villa Collemandina with its locally renowned restaurants, known for their use of fresh local produce of the finest quality.
The Garfagnana area is totally unspoilt and benefits from spectacular scenery as well as being close to the popular city destinations of Lucca, Florence and Pisa. The area is famous for it's fine food. Eating out is great value in Garfagnana, with a full lunch with wine and coffee costing 9/10 euros, and a typical evening main course costing 7-10 euros.
Fantastic pizzas cost 4-5 euros.
Touring the hundreds of hill top villages, visiting the local market town of Castelnuovo or wandering the labyrinth cobbled streets of nearby Barga town is also a wonderfully relaxing way to spend the day.