http://www.tuscanbreaks.com/Italian/index_italian.htm If you are looking for the place to relax and meditate, maybe you need a refreshing place, perhaps a beautiful place in the center of Italy. Of course, you can also taste the cheese pecorino cheese (along with a good wine), move between beautiful cities (Arezzo, Cortona, Montepulciano, Siena and Assisi), give you a full day in the cradle of the Italian Renaissance, Florence. Perhaps, coming back to your Italian “good retreat”, you will be tired. You might want to relax in a heated pool, watching the hills around you who have the same sky of Michelangelo and Leonardo. http://www.turismo.intoscana.it/site/en/
Welcome to Casa Portagioia, your B & B, where you could choose between five bedrooms and two apartments. You will have already realized that your breakfast is a great culinary temptation, where your daily programs are transformed, reminding the preciousness of the greatest joy: a sweet relaxation. When you’re ready for dinner, come on the terraces of Casa Portagioia, sit and watch the countryside around you, and your five-course menu takes you into the night, along with selected Tuscan wines from the cellar. Of course, you can also take a stroll in the garden, where the cypress and lavender, roses and rosemary, wraps you with joyful scents. Brings joy to your home, but back here in the first week of August, because in the nearby town of Cortona waiting for you the “Tuscan Sun Festival”, to taste the ingredients of joy: music and wine, good food, sun and tranquility. http://www.cortonaweb.net/en