The house is slightly shabby, but clean, comfortable and much more spacious than the website suggests. It swallowed 19 people with ease ( two teenagers on sofas). The beds are very comfortable and linen and towels nice.
At night, we switched on the air circulation systems which are there for the many woodburners in the house, and the hum happily masked the noise of a barking dog in the valley below.
Small moan; not enough wine glasses for number the house accommodates .We are keen cooks; we could have done with more chopping boards and sharper knives; there is no toaster . Also no icetray, strangely! But we managed to feed a big group with lovely meals The outdoor bread oven and huge BBQ were put to good use. Lots of space for playing games inside and out, with extensive terraced gardens; lots of wild herbs.
Our two dogs were very happy( though hot! they could keep cool indoors)
We ate outside next to the lovely pool every meal.Wonderful sunsets, as the house sits high on a ridge between pretty valleys with views all around .
Easy journey to station and into Florence. Bologna airport 45 mins drive, but no direct train from there.
Quite different terrain from further south in Tuscany; almost mountainous, and wooded.
We all loved this holiday , and family and friends came from far and wide to join us, and it worked brilliantly.