Tuscan Mountain Cottage
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Front of the cottage Walk to Mignano from the Cottage Passo Delle Gualanciole

  • Pieve Santo Stefano

  • Sansepolcro

  • Arezzo

  • Anghiari

  • Monterchi

  • La Verna

  • Caprese Michelangelo

  • Gubbio

  • Florence

  • Siena

  • Bologna

  • Ravenna

  • Rimini

  • Perugia

  • Assisi

 

The village the house is in is a beautiful hamlet called Cerignone , just a 5 minute drive from the E45 that runs from Pergugia to Cesena. It's on the Tuscan side of the Tuscany/ Emelia Romagna border. Cerignone has a collection of houses, some permanent residents and some that are holiday homes. The house is at the top end of the village and is very peaceful, with a stunning view onto Monte Nero.

There's a walking route (sentiero) signposted with by red and white waymarkers. There are beautiful walks and mountain bike rides from right outside the front door to the top of the valley of the Tiberina. The Cananeccia river that you will cross on the way up the mountain feeds the Tiber river, the source of which is here. We're also surrounded by the Monte Nero nature reserve and national park, leading up to the Gualanciole pass and the Casentini range and a multitude of walking and cycling routes through the hills and forests to local villages, castles, monasteries and medieval sites.

In the summer months a Pizzeria opens up at the weekends and makes lovely (and very cheap) pizzas in a real home-like setting. You'll also find a shop and bar at the foot of the mountain selling bread, cheese, ham and stock cupboard basics.

Our closest town is Pieve Santo Stefano - ten minutes drive away. Here you'll find supermarkets, fresh pasta shop and all the other things you'd expect from a thriving town. It's also got a market with fruit and veg (Mondays) as well as all sorts of useful (and not so useful!) things for sale on the stalls inside the historical centre.

Sansepolcro is the big town in the area and has a stunning historical cente with plenty to interest lovers of history and of food and wine and ice-cream.

The house is under an hour from Arezzo and less than two hours from Florence and Siena.

Local towns well worth a visit are Anghiari, Monterchi, La Verna, Caprese Michelangelo (guess who was born there), Gubbio and the spa town of Badia Telalda.

Use the links on the right hand side to find out more information about the local areas.