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In the heart of the Chianti area, just a few kilometres from Florence is the renaissance "Villa Il Poggiale", classified as a Historic Home, entirely restored by its owners in order to offer the hospitality and the atmosphere of a family home at at very reasonable rates. |
 "Villa Il Poggiale" Today:
The Villa has wonderfully light and spacious rooms. The large hall, the heart of the house, with its beautifully decorated doors, is full of comfortable armchairs and welcoming settees. Various other smaller lounges offer space and tranquillity for relaxing or reading. The walls of the bedrooms, all of which are large and each different from the other, are painted in colours made with earth and natural pigments. The materials used for the curtains and the canopies over the beds come from small Tuscan artisanal workshops. |
 Oriental silks have, instead, been used in the salons and the rooms on the main floor. Great care has been taken in the decorating of the bathrooms where specially made tiles in pale tones have been used. Breakfast is served in the dining room on the ground floor with the fire lit on winter days.Seated in the Renaissance loggia, you can have a wonderful view of the classic garden which envelops you with the perfume of old roses and of other flowering plants. |
 History:
The first evidence of the villa dates back to 1408, when the Corsini family bought it from Jacopo d’Agostini Martini. It then passed into the possession of the priorship of Florence and subsequently to the Ricasoli-Rucellai family. The external structure of the Villa dates from the 16th century with its lovely Renaissance loggia and the elegant surrounds of the windows and doors in “pietra serena”. The central courtyard with its well is probably the oldest part of the villa although various improvements and extensions have been carried out over a long period of time, adding to its attractiveness. The interior decorating, instead, dates from the 1800s with beautiful frescoes in the halls and decorated doors. The entrance areas and the carriage rooms are frescoed in a typical “grotesque” style of Renaissance origin. |
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