Description

Villaggio Le Querce is situated directly outside the small and very characteristic hilltop village of  Sorano, in the Province of Grosseto, in Maremma Tuscany, only 9 km from Pitigliano, like Sorano, one of the three villages, entirely built on a hilltop of tuff stone.
The residence is composed of two terraced buildings, lying in front of each other. Inside were accommodated 24 well furnished and equipped apartments.
Around the buildings a painstakingly cared park of two hectares (with trekking route), where are also situated the parking, children's playground, benches, tables, barbecue area, a huge pool (20 x 8 m) with the tavern underneath.

In front of the tavern, that can be transformed into a banquet hall, meeting room etc. (with WC, kitchen), a nice terrace with tables and chairs. Just a few metres from the tavern, a wine cellar that has been digged in the hill of tuff stone, with ideal temperature for the storing of wine.
Wine has always played an important role in the whole area, from the Etruscans on and it is presumed that they already made use of the caves to store wine and other food because of the constant temperature during summer and winter. Today, three types of wine have obtained the Italian D.O.C. quality labels:

the red wine Morellino di Scansano, the white wine Bianco di Pitigliano and the red wine Rosso di Sovana. The local wine does also represent the ideal matching to the traditional tasty recipes of the Maremma Tuscany, such as acquacotta, tagliatelle ai funghi, wild boar specialities as well for the local cheese and salami. The residence has made an agreement for the guests with the characteristic restaurant "Da Fidalma" in the historic centre of Sorano, where it is possible to taste a traditional homemade and very tasty cuisine.

The whole area has to offer much more than only a delicious cuisine: lush green hills are alternating with dense woods, ideal for trekking and long walks in the countryside. Absolutely worth visiting are also the other two nearby villages built on a tuff stone rock, Pitigliano and Sovana.
Furthermore, the whole area is covered by the so called Vie Cave Etrusche, the Etruscan road quarries, digged into the tuff stone, sometimes several kilometres long and several metres deep. In those roads can be seen also some Etruscan tombs.
From Villaggio Le Querce one can easily reach the famous spa resort Saturnia (about 30 min. by car), the Bolsena lake (26 km), Monte Amiata and the Argentario Coast(ca. 55 km).

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