Recreation
Welcome to Collina Etrusca, a place where the pleasure of living in a beautiful house meets a privilege of dwelling close to nature and far from hectic city life. On the outskirts of Volterra, Collina Etrusca welcomes you as your ideal home in the heart of green Tuscany, merely an hour from Pisa, Florence, Lucca, Livorno and the Mediterranean Sea. From the coast you'll see the beautiful islands of Elba, Giglio, Caprai, with Sardinia and Corsica just beyond the horizon. Collina Etrusca, a landscape of endless inspiration, is an artwork created both by nature and the people who lovingly tend it. Here, art and the land are one, layered with century-old traditions and a continuously changing panorama: gently rolling hills of waving wheat fields, serenity and silence, the essence of art.
Here, we can fully embrace Beauty, Culture and Nature: sensations, authentic and sincere flow from time immemorial. Florence, where from the Piazzale Michelangelo one can see the expansive vista of the quintessential, renaissance city. Florence, with its Piazza della Signoria and Palazzo Vecchio, the church of Maria del Fiore and the famous Duomo with Bruneleschi's dome; Ponte Vecchio, where with the soul's eyes we move to the Uffizi to see La Primavera by Sandro Botticelli. (La Primavera-Spring). The spring embraces Volterra with the lushness of grass, and the sea, gently moving and shifting to golden, summer wheat fields ripening toward the fall harvest with luscious purple grapes almost bursting on the vine and golden sunlight glints on silver olive leaves shimmering in the autumn breezes, and finally after the harvest, all returns to the colour of the earth.
The landscape beckons us to Siena where on the Piazza del Campo the famous Palio takes place. We come to San Gimignano, with its historic charm, then Pisa's Piazza dei Miracoli and the famous leaning tower. The Mediterranean seems to be a stone's throw away where, from the hilltops above, one can glimpse the islands of Giglio, Capraia, Elba, and easily imagine Corsica and Sardinia in the distance. The hot springs at Montecatini rejuvenate the body. One doesn't need much to relax in Tuscany. Beyond nature's beauty and the abundance of art, one can easily find opportunities for archery, biking, cookery lessons, hang gliding, horseback riding, as well as shopping in the famous Barberino di Mugello outlet stores. This land has much to offer. There are no limits to how one can spend the time. Your only task is to engage in the pleasure of discovering each of them.
