Montespertoli, Tuscany, Address available on request

Details :- Reference: BFXX-T785. Price: upon request<br /><br />4-storey ancient stone building<br /><br />Castellino Lucardo towers four-stories high next to the arched entrance to a 14th-century hilltop castle, in the Tuscan countryside southwest of Florence.<br /><br />Its commanding height provides uninterrupted views to all points of the compass including the towers of San Gimignano, the Florentine hills, the Tyrrhenian Sea and southern Appenine mountains above Pisa. Its three-year renovation was completed in May 2007.<br /><br />The great, chestnut doors on the ground level of Castellino Lucardo open onto a private access road and private, terraced garden with dining patio below. On the second level the kitchen doors open into the medieval cortile.<br /><br />It has been renovated sensitively with pietra serena stone, handmade terracotta tiles, brick arches, heavy walnut doors, traditional shutters in cypress wood and furnished with Italian antiques. The windows on every floor command spectacular views (even from the bathrooms).<br /><br />Three bedrooms, on two floors, four baths — two with spectacular views — and a hydraulic massage tub on the top floor.<br /><br />The arched stone stairways of Castellino Lucardo wind upward through four stories filled with antiques. Its private access road starts from a vaulted subterranean cantina banquet hall and ends in a tower room beneath massive chestnut beams.<br /><br />The terraced garden includes fruit trees, grape arbor, roses and a traditional, covered patio, with wood-burning pizza oven and grill.<br /><br />The vaulted, underground cantina/tavern stays cool all summer and has a traditional walk-in fireplace.<br /><br />Shops and restaurants nearby.