Last autumn my wife and I started talking about the summer holiday 2011. We started looking for a house to rent in Tuscany and she found Villa Ferraguzzo by “accident”. This villa looked too good to be true but she submitted a price request immediately. This villa was just what we had in mind as the whole family, ourselves, our two sons and their families, wanted to go. Three flats with seven bedrooms meant that we also could have visitors.
Arriving in Rome in the afternoon and heading north towards Villa Ferraguzzo in the dark was a new experience as the road signs and the GPS didn’t marry up as expected. At 2 o’clock in the morning we arrived Villa Ferraguzzo. Luca and his dad Lido were waiting for us and gave us a warm welcome.
Waking up the next day was nothing else but fantastic! The villa, the garden, the pool, the surrounding areas, everything was beyond our expectations. The photos on their website do not serve the villa right! It took us a couple of days to wind down and to understand that we were as close to heaven as we possibly could be still being alive. It is a quiet place and the only noise that could be heard was a few cars on the road close by and some tractors out on the field. We heard the birds singing and the wind blowing gently in the trees. Our grandchildren had a fantastic time, mainly in the pool, enjoying every second of our two weeks stay.
If you are looking for a place to recharge your batteries, Villa Ferraguzzo can be recommended!
Villa Ferraguzzo even has its own restaurant in the adjacent building. This restaurant is open on request and they served very good typical Italian food.
Luca and his dad Lido doesn’t know the word no. They are doing whatever possible to make the holiday as comfortable as possible. Whatever your request is, they fix it. They were around every day, either to make sure that the stay was as perfect as possible or to cut the lawn, clean the pool or any other maintenance required.
Luca organize whatever you want to do, either a trip to see all the fantastic towns in the surrounding areas, a course to learn how to make Italian pizza or anything else such as a visit to a wine producer in Chianti. Luca did also organize a taxi to Arezzo and the train for the departure of our friends.
Thank you Luca and Lido, you brought our holiday experience to a whole new level! We will be back without a shadow of a doubt!