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This charming converted monastery nestles in the hillside
hamlet of San Pietro a Marcigliano, not far north of the city of Lucca.
The setting is incomparable and the views are wonderful. This is a hiddesn part of Tuscany, timeless, unchanging and away from the tourist track. The Monastery was built about 1600 and has been owned by the same family since 1792. It has been converted to a family home while retaining the vital architectural integrity of the original buildings. |
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It is maintained to a high standard and is elegant, comfortable
and well equipped, including a pool. It is surrounded by its own fields
and vineyards as a working estate. This is Tuscan countryside of the Renaissance paintings, cultivated and benign. A timeless landscape of vines and olive groves, stately cypress trees, terracotta farmhouses, blue hills and faraway towers whose bells speak to each other across deep, drowsy distances. And at night the lights of Lucca glitter like fireflies on the plain below. |
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