Chianti hotels - Tuscany - Bordering the Arno Valley and the hills of Chianti, Villa Sassolini is a fine example of sympathetic and creative architecture - this holiday villa, with individual rooms to let, marries the past to modern concepts of hospitality and comfort in a most refined manner.
And nearby there is marvellous sightseeing. This holiday villa sits in the Valdarno (Arno Valley) and west of the old city of Arezzo, with its lovely old quarter. A major Etruscan and Roman city, Arezzo was a rich independent republic in the Middle Ages. Today, its old churches, museums, galleries and buildings bear witness to that history ... you’ll also find fine shops, restaurants and markets.
To the west lies the Renaissance gem of Siena. This magnificent blend of antique and modern boasts a superb Gothic Duomo (a breathtaking cathedral of black and white marble) as well as the fine Gothic Palazzo Pubblico; it has excellent galleries and museums in the Museo Civico and Pinacoteca Nazionale. The old city hospital, Santa Maria della Scala, has been retired after 900 years of tending the sick and is now an exciting gallery space. And there are fine frescoes displayed in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo. Add in the Palio – the breathtaking horse race run around Il Campo (the scallop shaped piazza at the heart of the city) twice each summer – and you have a city that demands you explore.
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