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Agriturism Poggiarello Ancient Village Among woods and vineyards of Sienese Chianti, surronded by a large region considered a natural park,with a dominating and sunny position, you find the ancient village of the XVII century called "Poggiarello".

Unforgettable sunsets, breath-taking landscapes can be admired by the base of the ancient tower of the year 1000.

The structure consists of a 14 apartments charmingly furnished in the old style of Tuscany. Each apartment is provided with sat-tv and internet connection.

It is possible to enjoy the swimming pool of 16 x 9 meters surrounded by the green olive trees and close to the wood. Who love to relax can enjoy all the year round the characteristic Roman Bath (cave containing water with a temperature of 35/38 degrees centigrade).

There is, only for our guests, a tipycal restaurant where they can appreciate the best food of traditional tuscan cooking and, of course, the best wines of Chianti area.

Poggiarello is the ideal place to spend a charming holiday in close contact with nature,where it's possible to make walking or bicycle tours along the Francigena way.
Art lovers can reach in a few minutes enchanting towns such as Siena,Florence,Monteriggioni,Volterra, San Giminiano, Montalcino and Pienza.

Who love to relax can enjoy all the year round the characteristic Roman Bath (cave containing water with a temperature of 35/38 degrees centigrade).

Typic dishes of Tuscany kitchen
For dinner we suggest you to taste the typical Tuscany cooking and the excellent local wines (Vernaccia di San Gimignano, Brunello di Montalcino, Chianti) of secular tradition in the fascinating dining room located in the old byre.
Our dining room is also available to take breakfast, only for our guests.

San Gimignano, Monteriggioni e Volterra
This is a very interesting panoramic trail through the Pliocene basin of Volterra. Follow the country lane down from the water font at Borgo Santo Stefano, turn left and proceed until you pass an alabaster workshop which leads to the main road to Montecatini Val di Cecina. On your right you can admire the outstanding view of the precipitous ravines called Le Balze which looms over the clay basin of the Era valley.

The little village of Citerna leads you through open fields and pasture land spread out over the soft rolling hills. From the road you can admire the erosions caused by the clay soil (there is one near the Infrascato farm house). Turn right at the SS.439 crossroads, follow the road to Montecatini, and between km 92 and 93 turn right in the direction of Volterra. The road takes you through a landscape of barren hills and rugged clay gullies to the little XI century church of Santa Lucia at Corbano, the village of San Cipriano and the road back to Volterra.

This walk up to Volterra is particularly awe-inspiring: from here you can admire the majestic view of the Balze, an enormous abyss originated by the erosive action of the meteoric waters which permeated through the permeable sandy deposit of the hill of Volterra removing the impermeable underlying clays and creating in this way the progressive fall of the superposed sandy stratum.

The deep rugged crags were created by the natural erosion of the arenaceous layers of Pliocene and in the XVII century it engulfed the Etruscan necropolis and the church of San Giusto in Botro. Back to Volterra we suggest a visit to the abandoned Camaldolite Abbey built in the XI century.

From Florence to Siena, the cradle of the Renaissance
Monteriggioni falls within the province of Siena, is about halfway between Siena and Colle Val D'Elsa and is easily reachable with the speedway Florence-Siena.
Monteriggioni is without any doubt one of the most classical and best known Italian walled town. Since the Middle Age its fame was so great that also the great poet Dante refers to its 'round enclosure' in his Divine Comedy (Hell, XXXI, 40-41). The walls, nearly intact, cover a length of 570 meters and are alternated by 14 towers and two gates. The Sienese gate rises at the base of a tower while the gate oriented toward Florence opens in the wall and is defended by one of the towers of the fortified perimeter.

The town was built by the Sienese from 1213 to1219 upon a hillock at dominating and overlooking the Cassia Road. Its ideal position allowed to control the Elsa and the Staggia Valleys towards Florence, the historic enemy of Siena, that at that time was rapidly expanding its territory.
The hill of Monteriggioni is natural, though at a first sight it could seem a great 'motte' (from the name of the classical Norman castles 'Motte-and-Bailey' built on artificial hills and gifted of enclosure), and the almost perfect circular layout of the walls was obtained just following the sketch of the ground's curves of level. In the planning it was tried to limit the main weak points, the gates, entrusting the connections with the outside only to a east to west crossing road.

In Monteriggioni the military building work appears physically distinguished by the inhabited area confined to its inside and well separated from the walls by a 'territory of respect'. On the contrary, in the ancient times the inhabited area had been more intense and with a more narrow band of separation. The village that we can admire today is really authentic because it has never suffered from building or tourist speculations. The only changes to its aspect happened in the first years of the XVI century when the towers at the base of the walls were lowered with the purpose to get a 'bastion' effect trying to adapt the fortifications to the development of the new fire weapons.