Description

Villa Poggitazzi is situated in a dominating position, overlooking the Valdarno, near Arezzo, Florence and Siena. The Poggitazzi farm has more than 480 ha of land, subdivided in olive groves and vineyards, as well as a Mediterranean park, green fields, wood with century old oaks, ideal for long walks or to pass the time under plain air. In the centre of the farm, a building that is dating back to the year 1911 and called La Fabbrica, "the factory". The name derives from the first use as factory for agricultural processing of tobacco, linen and silk. The building has been restructured and divided in apartments, without touching the original structures, but equipped with all modern comforts.

Guests can make use of the huge garden with pool, the several outside spaces as well as of ping pong tables. Furthermore it is possible to participate in cooking courses, during which the participants learn how to prepare the typical dishes of the traditional Tuscan cuisine. Those who just love to taste Tuscan cooking, can do this at the farm restaurant. The Poggitazzi farm has been producing by now for centuries extra vergin olive oil and D.O.C.G. wines. On request it is possible to make a guided visit at the villa, the garden, the Romanesque chapel, the oil mill and the wine cellars, with wine and olive oil tasting.

In the oldest part of Villa Poggitazzi are available the renaissance halls with frescoes, ideal for meetings, receptions or cerimonies that can hold up to 450 guests. During the summer it is possible to make the receptions in the open air in the charming Mediterranean park, that was created in the 16th century along the boundary wall. Thanks to the ample spaces, air conditioning of the halls and parking spaces, it is the ideal place for receptions of any kind. Especially wedding receptions will have a striking scenery and the perfect organization thanks to the availability of the 18th century chapel and the guest's accommodations at "La Fabbrica".

Villa Poggitazzi is also the ideal starting point for excursions in the near surroundings, discovering for example the orat of the Romanesque parishes, winding from Reggello to Loro Ciuffenna, on the traces of the antique Via Cassia Vetus; or, for those, keen on trekking, the route underneath Via Cassia Vetus, winding along the cliffs.
Villa Poggitazzi is also the ideal starting point to discover the most important places of art and culture in Tuscany thus as Florence (35 km), Siena (45 km) and Arezzo (25 km). Also the smaller, less known, but very actractive places like Cortona, Sansepolcro, Pienza, Certaldo, San Gimignano and the Chianti Classico area can be reached for daily trips. For those who adore Italian fashion: only 20 km away  there is a new shopping center with outlets and boutiques of all the most prestigious high fashion trademarks.

 

HISTORY OF VILLA POGGITAZZI

The first settlements go back to the age of the Longobardi and were used as military defense. The antique ghibelline fortification belonged to the Pazzi family until 1288, when Uberto de' Pazzi gave it to the Guelphic part of Florence which rebuilt and enlarged it before giving it to Maffeo di Francesco da Sommaja, notary of Florence. From him comes the family name "de' Libri" (of Books) and the gentilitial coat of arms (three binded books nailed together in the bright field). Since 1300 the Libri family makes enlargements and restructurations and finishes the chapel dedicated to S. Antonio Abate on the square located to the south of the settlement.

The Libri family passed on the ownership and management of the "Poggitazzi House and Palace", as the mannor was called in 1500, leaving with its members a deep trail in the cultural and administrative life of Florence.
Today, the core of the estate is composed of three main buildings connected inside through undergrounds, and outside through courtyards and hallways, which also delimitate the two gardens: one of them large and antique, restored with original materials, and the other one from the nineteenth-century.

The north-western part of the factory has probably been restructured around the first years of the eighteenth-century, on the typology of the Tuscan Villa in such age.
Further enlargements and embellishments, as coffer ceilings and frescoes, were added during the second half of the nineteenth-century, when the ownership of Poggitazzi became the wedding gift from Melania Libri Graziani to Giovanni Magherini. During this period the agricultural activity is reorganized and promoted, specially for production of wine and oil.

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