My family of 4 was looking for the beautiful Tuscan villa for our family vacation and we found it! Villa Muricce was spacious, perfectly decorated with vintage yet beautiful and comfortable furnishings, and was centrally located for all of our family fun! AND, the kitchen was better furnished with all necessary tools than my own kitchen! We so enjoyed our daytrips to Siena, Cortona, Florence, San Gimignano, Montepulciano, Montalcino and Volterrra, each more interesting and unique than the last. It was so easy to drive from place to place and be lost in the Tuscan atmosphere and enjoy real Italian life. With great train service beginning a short distance away in Siena, we even enjoyed a daytrip to Venice starting early but returning by 10 pm! Although the surrounding areas (and restaurants) were grand in the day, we also enjoyed sitting by the pool with foods picked up in local markets and then cooking and eating outside in our own courtyard with the crickets merrily chirping. There are several restaurants just a short drive nearby (loved Osteria de Fonterutoli and Il Mulina), and at least 2 supermarkets also close by (PAM, in a lovely enclosed shopping mall, with a grand underground parking lot directly across from the Siena train station and the Coop in San Miniato). One of the best features about this villa are the lovely owners though. Giada and her mother could not have been any more welcoming and accommodating! Giada happily met us upon arrival and showed us how everything operated, sites of nearby restaurants and attractions, and even hiking trails. After that, they were certainly around to assist and answer any questions but, if you so desired, they left you alone to enjoy their Tuscan world. We so enjoyed seeing, visiting, and learning from them! Oh, and this was very important to our family, the villa bedrooms had windows with screens and air-conditioning—rather uncommon in Italy! We were there in a July heat wave. The screens allowed us to open up the rooms to fresh air in early morning and evening without fear of any creatures visiting us at night later, and while we slept, we turned on the AC to ensure sound sleeping and happy family tourists the following day. AC is an extra charge (and worth it in a July heat wave), but we were delighted to see that running 3 bedroom ACs only at night cost only about 50 euros for the week....well worth it! Honestly, it was everything we expected from a Tuscan villa, right down to the friendly, helpfu