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Between Volterra and San Gimignano, Villa Montignoso offers an unequalled view - you'll never be sated. The clear sky makes a present of the distant sea-view - the sun comes and warms every day, while the morning fresh air comes to appease the nights. It is an isle of beauty where the sound of silence becomes joy of living ...

The estate consists of an elegant villa with its lovely dependence, recently restored in its original style as an exclusive residence for guests. The style is elegant and tasteful, but absolute sober in its elegance. The villa is white coloured, with grey finishing touches that frame windows and doors, while the dependence is a typical hard stone building.

The properties together can sleep up to twenty people (six in the villa and up to fourteen in the residence).

Both villa and residence are furnished in a very sober and tasteful way, highly simple and elegant at the same time, respecting the rustic Tuscan style but giving extreme attention to detail. The evidence of refined handicraft is everywhere - lime plastered and painted walls, precious bathrooms and kitchen entirely in Carrara marble, warm floors in Impruneta terracotta, an exclusive terrace in Pienza Travertine marble ... the list goes on.

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Special care has been taken to provide the villa with all modern comforts: satellite colour TV, telephone, independent heating, a laundry room, dishwasher, two refrigerators, one deep freeze and an ice-machine. Bed/bath/table linen are provided, except for swimming-pool towels. Guests have at their disposal garden furniture, tables, chairs, sunshades, deck-chairs for the terrace, loggia and swimming pool. The lovely swimming pool has a width of 15 m x 6,50-8,50, with a starting depth of 1,20m reaching 3.90 m at the deepest point.

Villa (500 sqm. - 4+2 guests)

The villa, whic can offer hospitality to six persons, is characterised by a splendid loggia, typical of rural Tuscan architecture, from which large lounges and the kitchen are accessed. Also on the ground floor are a bathroom and larder.

On the upper floor there are two double bedrooms with en suite bathrooms, a study with sofa bed, and a solarium terrace.

Dependence (300sqm - 14 guests)

Completely rebuilt in stone, it comprises a large lounge, 6 double rooms (one of which has bunk beds) and 4 bathrooms. There is also a laundry room and kitchen, equipped with a 6 burner gas stove, fireplace, two refrigerators, one deep freeze, an ice machine, cooking utensils, pots and dishes.

History

Located on the highest hill between San Gimignano and Volterra, Montignoso was know in olden times as Mons Igneous, because the fires set on the watchtower warned San Gimignano of Volterran raids. During the entire mediaeval era, due to its strategic position, if was subject to a number of different dominations, which saw it first in the hands of Volterra, and then Pisa.

In 1235 San Gimignano occupied the Castle, taking the noble Tignosi family as prisoners, but by 1260 the jurisdiction of the small village has passed to the Florentines. Montignoso remained a target for conquest by neighbouring towns for centuries until, in 1891, with a sentence passed by the Italian State Parliament, it was annexed to the town of Gambassi Terme.

... Situated in the heart of mediaeval Tuscany, Montignoso boasts a panorama unique in the world. Here the gaze wonders from vineyards alternating with woods and fields dotted with olive trees, among ancient villages set, like precious gems, in the green of the hills, beyond which the sea is just discernible ...

Via Curtatone e Montanara 14, 50053 Empoli, Florence, Italy