Italian vacation within a farmhouse in southern Italy

Spend your Italian vacation within a farmhouse in southern Italy. Since 1754, the De Marco family have been producing olive oil and wine at this old farm building, and continue today using traditional tools. The tourist farm restaurant is the perfect showcase for the farm’s produce.

Right here, in the foothills of Mount Stella, among steep slopes and wild forests in the heart of the Cilento and Vallo di Diano national park (a UNESCO-protected environment) the farm has started a new life thanks to a careful renovation.

Along the farm lanes and under centuries-old olive trees, traditional farming tools are scattered as mute witnesses of a life spent in a simple and calm attitude to nature. I Fornari provides a perfect, relaxing environment with its comfortable halls and rooms, its impeccable service, and its cuisine rich with typical flavours peculiar to the Cilento region.

Who can resist the taste and smell of this “simple” fare, still cooked according to ancient recipes, passed on from mother to daughter in a way such as to preserve the old-times taste and genuine methods of preparation.

There is a charming restaurant in the old, stone-built olive-oil mill, where meals are cooked on the open fire, and guests can dine in a traditional, family atmosphere.

The seven bedrooms are located in the main building and in an adjacent cottage; they are all equipped with satellite colour TV and radio, bathroom, telephone and a comfortable solarium balcony.

There is a suite that, in addition to the room’s equipment and furniture, has a bedroom with an ancient canopy bed, a living room with 18th century furniture and a bathroom equipped with a water massage bathtub.