La Fonte

Tuscany, Siena, Chianciano Terme

    • Sleeps 8 Guests
    • Bedrooms 4 Bedrooms
    • Bathrooms 5 Bathrooms
    • Floor area sq m 280 m2
    • Pool
    • Air con
    • Daily maid
    • Cook
    • Terrace
    • Fireplace
    • Tennis
    • Airport distance:
      Florence 150 km
      Rome 200 km
      Pisa 215 km

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    Overview

    Just in front of the famous cypresses...

    La Fonte enjoys a privileged position in Tuscany - just in front of the famous cypress road that winds up to the crete on the opposite hill. Readers might be interested to learn that this is one ot the most photographed views of Tuscany. The road was build by the property owner while reclaiming this barren land, and resembles the medieval landscapes pictured by Lorenzetti in his well-known senese frescoes. You can enjoy this breathtaking view from several windows and of course from the garden of the house.

    The house stands on its own, surrounded by olive groves, wheat fields and cypresses. The well-kept garden has a swimming pool and a dépendance with a double bedroom and bathroom. From the swimming pool you can see the whole Orcia Valley with the Monte Amiata in the background.

    The typical form of the Tuscan farmhouse had stables on the ground floor, the family lived on the first floor. Today, the living rooms are located on the ground floor. The large living room has a fireplace. The large kitchen with French doors is decorated in a traditional style. A glass door leads from the dining room to a wine covered terrace for outdoor dining. On the first floor are the bedrooms and a small living room with fireplace, which had once served as a kitchen.

    La Fonte is linked to the main villa of the property - a beautiful Renaissance villa - by just over 1 km of gravel road. A country restaurant where you can have breakfast, lunch and dinner is in walking distance (1.5 km), if you feel like a stroll. 

     

    This house belongs to a a large property which extends over the hills overlooking the Val d'Orcia, an enchanting and miraculously unspoilt valley in southern Tuscany, listed as UNESCO world heritage in 2004. Midway between Florence and Rome, the estate is also within easy reach of Siena, Arezzo, Perugia, Assisi and Orvieto. Renaissance and medieval gems such as Pienza, Montepulciano, Monticchiello and Montalcino and the Abbey of Sant'Antimo are only a few miles away from the houses you can rent at the property.

    The countryside around the estate abounds in lovely walks in the woods and the typical "crete senesi" (clay hills) of the region. The food is considered the best in Tuscany and famous wines such as the Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and Brunello di Montalcino can be sampled in the local cellars.

    Guests Reviews

    Our Guests Reviews

    Sind seit einer Stunde hier in La Fonte eingetroffen. Es übersteigt alle Erwartungen. Ein Traumhaus. Alles liebevoll ausgesucht sauber und perfekt. Die Lage ist unschlagbar. Der Blick fehlt noch in jedem Toskanabildband. Wir sind völlig begeistert.
    Lieben Gruss und Dank,
    Von allen Vedder's, August 2012
     

    Amenities

    HOLIDAY HOME AMENITIES
    • Pool: 11 x 4m
    • Air conditioning 
    • Internet WIFI connection
    • Fireplaces
    • Satellite TV
    • Fridge with freezer
    • Stove with oven
    • Dishwasher
    • Microwave
    • Electric kettle
    • Coffee maker
    • Toaster
    • Mobile fans for the bedrooms
    • Washing machine
    • Iron and ironing board
    • Hair dryer
    • Terrace
    • 2 pergolas
    • Garden
    • Parking
    • Shared tennis court (2 km)
    Touring ideas

    Restaurant, bar 1.5 km
    Tennis 2 km
    Next grocery shop 6 km
    Montepulciano 7 km
    Monticchiello 10 km
    Thermal baths Chianciano 10 km
    Pienza 20 km
    Chiusi 20 km
    San Quirico d`Orcia 27 km
    Montalcino 38 km
    Arezzo 50 km
    Orvieto 50 km
    Perugia 60 km
    Siena 70 km
    Viterbo 70 km
    Assisi 80 km
    Florence 130 km
    Rome 170 km

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    Activities

    The property's location makes excursions to Siena, Assisi, Orvieto, Perugia, Arezzo and Florence an easy day trip.

    Florence and Rome can be reached by train in one and a half hours from the nearby station Chiusi.

    In San Quirico d'Orcia make sure you see the Horti Leonini, an early Renaissance garden, as well as the western door in the city wall and the Collegiata (main church).

    Montalcino is beautifully situated on a hill inhabited since Etruscan times, swathed in vineyards and olive groves. It is a quiet, affluent, attractive town with pretty buildings and flower-filled squares, and many shops selling the Brunello di Montalcino.

    Montepulcino is a graceful Tuscan hill town, best known for its Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, which was being praised by connoisseurs over 200 years ago and can certainly contend with Italy's best today.

    Pienza, the unfinished "utopian” city, was commissioned by Pope Pius II in 1459. In just three years the cathedral, the papal and bishop’s palaces and the central part of the town were completed, but the extensive project ended abruptly when Pius died only two years after the consacration of the cathedral.

    Monte Oliveto Maggiore: This abbey was founded by three Sienese noblemen who left the city to live a life dedicated to prayer, religion, etc. and who founded the Olivetan order – an off-shoot of the Benedictines. The most important thing to see at this still active and working Monastery is the cycle of frescoes that decorate the monumental cloister. They describe the live of Saint Benedict and were painted by Signorelli and Sodoma. There are also some beautiful marquetry stalls in the church itself.  It is a very magical and serene place set in the midst of exceptionally beautiful countryside. It is home to a dozen monks who specialize in restoring old books, and make wine, honey and olive oil.

    Sant’Anna in Camprena is a rambling monastery on the road between Pienza and San Quirico d’Orcia. A very romantic setting which served as location for the film The English Patient. In the refectory there is a fresco by the renaissance painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, known as Il Sodoma.

    Sant'Antimo is surely one of the loveliest Romanesque buildings in all of Italy. It is hard to imagine a more sympathetic combination of architectural grace and natural setting. Originally founded by Charlemagne in 800, the abbey was once home to a prominent Benedictine community. Creamy stone bricks, luminous Volterran alabaster, playful carvings and frescoes of animals give it a peculiarly sunny air. A group of French Cistercian monks now runs the abbey, celebrating Mass with Gregorian chants several times a day.

    The landscape in this region of Tuscany is spectacular: The Crete Senesi are the eroded clay hills in the Orcia valley. These strange, pale, barren looking slopes, with their bare cliffs, broken gullies and white Jurassic limestone, look altogehter more lunar than terrestial.

    Tuscany is famous for its Hot springs, belonging to a geothermical system that more or less encircles Monte Amiata: the most spectacular is Saturnia in the south west of the region. Steaming water collects in a number of white limestone basins - a rare natural spectacle and great fun to bathe in! Swimming possible both in the natural basins and in smart thermal baths. Saturnia offers a wide range of comforts and even a sauna.
    Close to the property is Bagno Vignoni which has been popular since Etruscan times. St. Catherine of Siena is said to have appreciated its thearpeutic qualities, as is Lorenzo the Magnificent, whose family built the splendid arcaded pool - a kind of flooded, bubbling piazza, famously used by Tarkowsky for some of the more surreal passages of his film Nolstalgia. Not far from this antique piazza there is a hotel with a lovely open air swimming pool, fed from hot springs. This is also available to external guests.
    Bagni San Filippo may go into the books as the world's smallest thermal spa - a telephone booth, a few old houses, outdoor spring in the middle of the woods with glistening limestone formations and one small hotel with a public pool.
    Just 10 km from the property you will find the thermal spa Terme di Chianciano with a highly modern health and thermal centre. Those wanting to combine holidays with a wellness break can enjoy fango baths, cosmetic and therapeutic treatments, solarium, massages and hydromassages. 
    In San Casciano dei Bagni, 30 km away, a few years ago a Medicivilla was converted into a luxury spa center. The view from the pool to the Orcia valley is breathtaking.

    Outlet: Fashion addicts can splurge out at the famous Prada factory outlet, which lies on to road to Florence.

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    La Fonte

    Ground floor:

    • 1 living room with fireplace
    • 1 dining room
    • 1 kitchen
    • 1 bathroom

    First floor:

    • 1 living room with fireplace
    • 2 double bedrooms and each with en suite bathroom
    • 1 twin bedroom with en suite bathroom

    Depandance:

    • 1 twin bedroom with en suite bathroom

    Outdoors:

    • Landscaped garden
    • Terrace with pergola (entrance to the dining room)
    • Old stone table in the shade of cyprus grove
    • Pool 

    The ground floor of the house consists of a large living room, with a fireplace, a dining room and connecting kitchen with French windows leading out onto a pergola for al fresco meals, and a bathroom. The circular travertine staircase leading to the first floor is based on a fifteenth-century model that was found in the nearby Renaissance town of Montepulciano. 

    On the first floor there is a studio/living room with a large fireplace (this was the old farmhouse kitchen), as well as 2 double bedrooms, 1 twin bedroom and 3 bathrooms.

    Another twin bedroom and bathroom are in the dependance by the pool. Great attention has been paid to the garden, which is developed on three levels, leading from the house down to the pool.

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    5290 EUR
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    30 Aug 2025 - 18 Oct 2025
    6700 EUR
    14 Jun 2025 - 30 Aug 2025
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    RENT INCLUDES

    • Bed, bath and kitchen linens
    • Mid-week change of towels
    • One pool towel per person
    • Small breakfast shopping: bread, 2 liters milk, 1 packet ground coffee, Earl Grey tea, jam (1 jar)
    • Air conditioning
    • Electricity
    • Internet WIFI connection 
    • Maid service (2 hours house cleaning per day 5 days per week)
    • Baby bed with linen and high chair
    • Final cleaning
    • Pool cleaning 
    • Garden maintenance 
    • Should you rent the accommodation for more than 1 week, the house will be cleaned on Saturdays and the linen will be changed.

    EXTRAS

    • Heating (if required): metered. Please be aware that central heating is very expensive in Italy. The average cost in winter varies according to the outdoor temperature and the amount of time the heating is turned on. Figure approx. EUR 300 - 600 per week for several hours heating a day.
    • Wood for fireplace: EUR 15 per basket

    SECURITY DEPOSIT

    EUR 600 are due via credit card on the premises.

    SERVICE ON REQUEST (please enquire with us when booking)

    • Extra domestic help (house cleaning, washing and ironing): EUR 15 per hour
    • Typical Tuscan meal on your first evening, after a long trip: EUR 40 per person. The dinner consists of an antipasto, a pasta dish, salad and pecorino cheese, local biscuits to finish, plus bread and a bottle of white or red wine (1 bottle every 4 adults). You will find it ready in your house upon arrival.
    • Cook for dinners during your stay: EUR 15 per hour (for shopping time and cooking) plus the expenses. Dinners are offered from Monday to Friday.
    • First shopping: EUR 150 (expenses for a few basics and shopping time included). The shopping list includes: bread, butter, jam, eggs, 2 litres milk, 1 packet Earl Grey tea, 1 packet, coffee, natural yoghurt, orange juice, 2 kg fruits of the season, 2 kg pasta (noodles), 2 jars tomato sauce, 1 large piece fresh parmesan cheese, salad and tomatoes, extra vergin olive oil, 4 litres mineral water, 3 bottles of beer, dishwasher detergent.

    NOTES

    • Reservations from Saturday to Saturday
    • PLEASE NOTE: For this property the check-in is possible between 3 and 6 pm.
    • Pool opening dates: mid May - mid October, depending on weather conditions

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