The Agriturismo is a typically Italian hospitality system. Over the years, this tourist reception system has taken on an increasingly tourist and less and less agricultural dimension. By developing facilities that provide the customer with numerous comforts and services such as swimming pools, massages, saunas, riding stables, etc. Tuscany is the Italian region that has the largest number of farmhouses. ...
Read More »The Spas of Tuscany: the region richest in spas
Tuscany, among the Italian regions, is without doubt the most rich in spas, just to mention some popular locations in the world as Montecatini Terme, Chianciano Terme, Saturnia. This region is in fact rich in deposits of thermal water that make it together with Emilia Romagna and Veneto, the most important Italian region for spas. Tuscany is a region that ...
Read More »Apuan Alps: the Marble Mountains
The Apuan Alps are probably the most beautiful mountains of Tuscany, located near the sea between Garfagnana and Lunigiana are universally famous for the marble that is extracted from its quarries since antiquity. MARBLE MOUNTAINS The mountains are rugged and inaccessible and recall, for their rugged form, the Dolomites. Apuan Alps are now a Regional Natural Park (Parco naturale regionale ...
Read More »Language holidays Lunigiana (Italy)
Language holidays Lunigiana (Italy) by Langues Services Firenze and The Watermill at Posara Langues holidays Services Firenze and The Watermill at Posara invite you to their original Italian language holiday courses. You’ll learn Italian while enjoing a marvellous vacation in unspoilt Lunigiana, a region in the North of Tuscany nestling between the Apuan Alps (where Michelangelo found the marble for ...
Read More »Lunigiana: land of medieval castles and churches
Lunigiana is an area of north-western Tuscany, embedded between Liguria and Emilia Romagna, and formed by the High and Middle Valley of the river Magra. Its name comes from the ancient city of Luni, a Roman colony that was of major importance for the area until the early Middle Ages. In prehistoric times in the Lunigiana has flourished the megalithic culture of Statues ...
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