Perfect for a couple or solo traveller, this recently renovated apartment is in the heart of Lucca, within the walls and a few footfalls from the central squares and streets of medieval Lucca. Lucca is a good base for exploring the rest of Tuscany, and has good road and rail links. Or just stay in Lucca and go everywhere on foot! Ghironcello, Lucca
Sleeps 1 to 2
Hotel Vecchia Cartiera. This hotel, in the centre of Colle Val d'Elsa, is housed in an ancient paper mill, carefully restored to provide a comfortable hotel and restaurant. Thirty eight bedrooms, air conditioning. Hotel Vecchia Cartiera, Siena
Antica Casa Le Rondini offers bed and breakfast in a beautifully restored 16th century house with frescoed walls. Elegant and refined, this place is quite special. Just outside Montecatini Terme, between Lucca and Florence. Antica Casa Le Rondini, Pistoia
Tuscany - Self-catering holiday apartments with beauty farm and within a mediaeval monastery close to Siena – perfect for exploring Tuscany and the rest of central Italy. San Lorenzo Linari. San Lorenzo Linari, Siena
These cosy first-floor air-conditioned flats provide Florence holiday rentals in the heart of the city. Perfectly equipped for a brief or a longer stay, they lie in one of the ancient side streets off Via Tornabuoni. Tornabuoni Apartments, Florence
Sleeps 2 to 10
Casale il Giuncheto, Chianti - Superior holiday rental accommodation in a mediaeval townhouse in the borderland between Florence, Siena and Arezzo - perfect for visits to the cities of art and the vineyards of Chianti. Casale il Giuncheto, Arezzo
Sleeps 4 to 9
This Chianti vacation accommodation comprises apartments and a house to rent, Tuscany, Italy. Casa Rossa, Florence
Palazzo Busdraghi, with a striking, period elegance, is a new 4-star hotel in Lucca, created from an old town house of the same name in Via Fillungo, the main street in the historic centre of the town. The Lucchese would call it a 'Residenza d'Epoca'. A Palazzo Busdraghi, Lucca
Sleeps 2 to 10+
