II Mulino di Ferraia

The Burgundy Sitting Room

The Mulberry Bedroom

En-suite Bathroom Mulberry Bedroom

Prices Currency Conversion

Rental periods	Per room/per night
All year	120 euros

Notes on prices
Price is per room per night in euros.
Discount on stay of one week- 800 euro per room.

Changeover day
Flexible on days and times.

Il Mulino di Ferraia

Three sitting rooms with log-burning fireplaces, beamed ceilings, antique furnishings, soft sofas, rugs, antique prints and paintings (ground and first floor). Large kitchen dining room arched and beamed ceilings, ground floor - the heart of the house - with long wooden dining table, large marble table for preparation of home-made pasta and home-grown vegetables. Adjoining atmospheric room in Tuscan stone with original mill-stones now used as wine cellar and for home-made conserves and also as another dining room served by the adjacent wood-burning bread\pizza oven and grill. First floor access to attractive hayloft overlooking the garden and river for intimate candlelit dinners Three bedrooms on 2nd floor. Beamed ceilings, terracotta floors, antique furnishing and pictures Double, en-suite shower - The Mulberry Room. Two singles, en-suite bathroom - The Nightingale Room. Two singles, private bathroom (tub) - The Geranium Room. Charming riverside garden with furniture.

Notes on accommodation
The house is equally comfortable in autumn-winter as well as summer. Central heating, four log-burning fireplaces and electric blankets on all beds ensures cosiness and magical atmosphere.
Not suitable for hildren under 12.
A shared passion for Tuscan home-made food and wine is welcomed. Cookery sessions are offered on request. Accompanied walks to "secret places" also offered. Painting courses with well-known Florentine artist offered on request.
Charming informal riverside garden, offers plenty of areas for sitting out relaxing in the shade of mulberry and walnut trees or in the sun. Large attractive shared swimming pool in neighbouring property with additional sitting out areas in attractive garden.
The setting of the house approached by private Roman bridge, the river, the stone structure and lawns and planting around the house make it an ideal place from which to paint.
Horse riding facilities nearby.

Accessibility
The property is on three floors with original stone steps. The original structure of the house has not been altered including the one stone step up to the main door.
The terrain surrounding the house is undulating.
Bathrooms are on the second floor and there is a WC on the first floor. The ground floor has no wc or bathroom.

Outside
The half acre informal garden around the house is flanked by the river Resco, numerous trees, stone walls and the wooden garden gate.
Parking is in the gravel courtyard outside the garden area. The approach to the house is 500metres from the tarmac road down a gravel incline and over the private Roman bridge.
The large and attractive shared swimming pool is in the large garden of the neighbouring property at the top of our private road. In the large garden surrounding the pool there is lots of garden for sitting out including covered areas, pool and garden furniture.
The mill garden is very pleasant for sitting and relaxing under mulberry and walnut trees or in the long covered porch. Garden seating and sunloungers are provided. Tea and cakes and aperitives are often served on the old millstones in the garden.

Coast/Beach
100km to beach.

Special interest holidays
The owners have founded an association to maintain local traditions and customs - especially those of the culinary variety - home-made Tuscan cooking of the local housewives "Academy Once Upon A Time"
By arrangement the following may be organized: Hands on country Tuscan Cooking sessions, Painting courses by well-known Florentine artist, Olive oil tastings by olive oil specialist, accompanied visits to local producers of local produce such as - Pecorino sheeps cheeses\ wood oven baked bread\ wine estates\ olive oil producers\ the much prized traditional local mountain chestnut floor, visits to wine and olive oil producers and wine tastings - Reggello and Chianti, accompanied walks to experience the magic of the Tuscan countryside in corners that are difficult for anyone other than locals to know and that often end in a fantastic unsung hidden away family trattoria, wine tastings in the house by one of Italy's well-known Sommeliers.

Travel
Car hire essential. Florence (Peretola) 60km. Car hire available
Pisa c.100km.

Distances
Reggello 4kms.
Florence 50km.
Arezzo 30km.
Siena 65km.
Greve (heart of Chianti) 25km.
The Abbey of Vallombrosa (Founded in 1000)- 12km above
Reggello.
Cascia - adjoining Reggello Roman church with one of earliest Masaccio paintings.
The Mall - designer discount shopping outlet 10 minutes drive.
Figline Val D'Arno - fantastic market Tuesday mornings 5 km
San Giovanni Val D'Arno - birthplace of Masaccio (Masaccio Museum) 12 km.
Casentino area - beautiful and undiscovered - from 20km.

Further details
Reggello - small market town. Shops\Banks\Good cafes for sitting out\Variety restaurants.
Surrounding hills up to Vallombrosa variety of restaurants
Figline Val D'Arno - must visit market Tuesday mornings. Attractive town. Best gelato bar in area. Good cafes and restaurants
The Mall - Designer discount shopping outlet (Gucci\Tods\Armani etc) and Prada Outlet 10 minutes drive.

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and has advertised this property with us since September 2007.

Property Ref IT1569
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