Italy: vacation flats and apartments in the country

Palazzo Roccalvecce offers you the chance to rent your Italian vacation accommodation in a historic 17th century palace in northern Lazio, 100 kilometres north of Rome and close to the border with Umbria. The palazzo dominates an ancient hilltop hamlet, and offers you unique lodging in an important and noted fortress long ago transformed into a castle. Palazzo Rocalvecce, Viterbo

A selection of apartments in villas, amid lawns, woodland and olive groves, on a huge farm estate in Tuscany. Azienda Agricola Piano Di Casciana, Lucca

Marvellous holiday rental accommodation in Italy, Case d'Elsa has secluded one- and two-bedroom apartments, sleeping two to four guests; there is also a pool. These wonderfully secluded apartments are just 15 minutes drive from the jewel of San Gimignano and its world-famous towers. Case d'Elsa, Florence

Villa Cefala is a splendid converted 18th century villa which provides Sicily holiday rental accommodation on the coast, outside Palermo, in Sicily, Italy. Apartments and short stay/bed and breakfast are catered for. Villa Cefala, Palermo

Monterchi is a picturesque Tuscan hilltop town east of Arezzo, near the Umbrian border. And Il Palazzetto is an old palace built right into the fortified walls of the main town square. Il Palazzetto, Arezzo

Il Lazzeretto, Tuscany - two holiday apartments lie just outside the spectacular town of San Gimignano in central Italy. This comfortable accommodation has great views and easy access to Siena, Florence and the other holiday attractions of central Italy. Il Lazzeretto Holiday Apartments, Siena

Providing holiday rentals in Italy, these villa apartments between Padua and Venice lie within ancient parklands on a working farm. Agriturismo Villa Selvatico, Padua

These Italian farm holidays are in a hilly area some 600m above sea level. This farmhouse in the Marches offers a superb base in central Italy. Agriturismo L'Olmo di Casigliano, Macerata