La Villa
We looked at our beautiful Tuscany and then designed Villa Bobolino to make it a luxury holiday home where you could experience the authentic Tuscan environment – yet in an innovative way – providing you with a unique interpretation of Florentine hospitality.
Villa Bobolino has more windows than walls – because it’s a place for light and energy. The mesmerizing beauty of the surrounding landscape can flow freely from the outside to the inside. The huge windows tell about our love for the sun Tuscany’s lovely climate. Tuscany is a region like no other, filled with art treasures, culinary delights and magical views. We take care of every detail to ensure our guests enjoy a thoroughly comfortable time while here.
Villa Bobolino is conveniently close to Florence, Pisa, Siena and Lucca in a perfect location to set out and explore Tuscany – it works well both if you are are travelling for work, or are on vacation.
We love the beauty of the Tuscany landscape, of hospitality, of art and culture. We love holiday homes where comfort, tech and nature are perfectly balanced, enhancing the authentic spirit of the land they are built on.
This is exactly what led us to design this modern, eco-friendly villa, in a lush green and sophisticated neighborhood which is thought to resemble the iconic Boboli Gardens of Florence.
We equipped Villa Bobolino with many comforts and amenities, to make it a place for well-being, to pamper the senses, entertain our guests and give life to memorable atmospheres. Here you can walk barefoot on the grass, find peace among the olive trees and in the orchard, take a dive in the swimming pool, relax in the sun and just enjoy your holidays in a comfortable and extremely functional environment. Villa Bobolino was made for families and friends. Its tech features are meant to enhance your relaxation and allow you to experience a thoroughly eco-friendly, luxurious lifestyle.
Villa Bobolino is the place where we sowed our dream – we thought of it both as a holiday home and a luxury resort, where guests become friends of a lifetime and where you come to celebrate, to rest. To be happy.
Inside the Villa
Villa Bobolino is a recent and very contemporary home. It can accommodate up to 18 people. If needed, cot and high chair are available for the little ones.
Villa Bobolino consists of 8 comfortable double bedrooms – each with a large private bathroom – a large living room with beautiful views and a spacious and bright family kitchen.
The decor is basic and functional. All rooms feature air conditioning, wi-fi and TV. The great family living room has a blue-ray 3D player. The finely finished private bathrooms include extra-large showers.
We made estensive use of premium materials, such as glass and steel, the best flooring and porcelains, terracotta, marble from Carrara and solid wood.
On the ground floor you find the entrance, which faces the stairs and leads to the first floor, a large living room with view, three bedrooms and a large kitchen, directly accessible from the courtyard. The kitchen is fully equipped with appliances and plenty of utensils.
On the first floor, the large living room has a beautiful view over the hills, olive groves and the town of Montelupo. From here, you can reach the four additional bedrooms (one of which sleeps 3) and a large terrace.
Having a low environmental impact has been a key principle of our project from the very beginning – we now continue to manage the villa with this philosophy. We compensate our emissions by planting trees and plants.
Villa Bobolino is highly eco-friendly! It features floor heating, a photo-thermo-voltaic system and a wood-burning heating system. All electricity is produced with solar panels, laid on roof and on garden terraces. We recycle all materials: glass, plastic, paper, aluminium; we collect organic waste and use it in the garden and the orchard. We collect rain water and, after proper filtration and cleaning, reuse it to fill the pool – which we heat with solar panels – and to irrigate the many thousands of plants and flowers that are found in the garden. Whenever we can, we offer our produce to our guests – fruits and vegetables we grow in the villa orchard: apricots, pears, apples, tomatoes, lettuce, zucchini, cherries, strawberries, olives …
Outside
Villa Bobolino lies in a beautiful green area and is surrounded by flowers. The owners are very fond of nature, its colors and scents – and they sowed roses, oleanders, lavender, rosemary and lilies all over the property. Springtime at Villa Bobolino is a real wonder and a delight for the senses.
The large swimming pool for adults and children can be heated with solar panels when the weather allows for it. The outdoor shower next to the pool is also sun-heated. A baby pool is available next to the large one. Around the pool is a large sunbathing area, the spot the sun-lovers enjoy the most. The swimming pool is carefully maintained to fully comply with the local rigorous hygene and safety standards. The entire pool control system is automatized to maintain optimized water level and balanced water parameters. We kindly ask our guests to complay with the swimming pool rules which are designed to provide you with top hygene and wellness conditions.
Just outside the kitchen is a large outdoor dining & relaxing area, equipped with a large table in the shade and swinging chairs. The beautiful wood-burning brick oven with barbecue is perfect for outdoor parties. It features a convenient surface and running water for a truly comfortable outdoor cooking experience.
For those who prefer to read in the shade of the large pine trees and in the fragrant breeze carrying rosemary, sage and mint scents, a gazebo (with power outlets and free wi-fi) is the ideal place to indulge, sheltered from the sun, and enjoy a beautiful view of the pool.
Next to the pool is a small orchard of olive trees, a vineyard and a wide variety of roses. Here the owner built a little beautiful cabin for kids to play in.
Take a pleasant walk in the property. Explore the pebbles promenade. It is a private path that crosses the entire property, through the orchard the garden.
Finally, the property includes a private parking that can fit up to 5 cars.
Montelupo Fiorentino
Montelupo Fiorentino is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Florence, located about 20 kilometres (12 miles) southwest of Florence.
The area is predominantly hilly and is crossed by the river Pesa that, particularly in the municipal area, flows into the Arno river.
Until the 16th century, Montelupo Fiorentino lived his golden age. It was one of the most important centers of pottery production of the Renaissance, at the Italian and the European level.For more than three centuries, the furnaces have proliferated within the city walls (built in the mid 14th century), to over 50 units at the end of the 15th century. The production level was such that required an “Editto del Potestà” (Edict) to prohibit that the huge quantities of waste and processing residues were thrown in the adjacent Pesa River, so to avoid its stream to be diverted.
Some of Montelupo’s potteries are the finest examples of Renaissance majolica “istoriata” (stained) that makes a fine show in the most important museums in the world (Musée de Cluny, and Victoria and Albert Museum, to name a few), although often with labels and captions not exactly correct.
At the end of the 17th century, after the production of wonderful artifacts for pharmacies Florentine Dominicans of San Marco and Santa Maria Novella was finished, it began the slow but inexorable decline in the production of ceramics in Montelupo. Only through the production of the Capraia’s pots the tradition survived during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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