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Hotel Villa Marsili, Cortona Tuscany
– Stuated few kilometers away from Umbria
Cortona, a picturesque walled city in Tuscany,
is a most favorite with tourists. The bedrooms are all beautifully
decorated and have all the comforts and appointments of a first-class
hotel. Throughout the hotel a quiet, refined atmosphere prevails,
with soft colors enhanced by antique furniture and ceilings ornamented
by frescoes. Breakfast is a wonderful buffet of Tuscan specialties.
There is no restaurant, but guests can enjoy a complimentary aperitif
on the garden terrace with a view of the Val di Chiana valley and
Lake Trasimeno before walking to a rich selection of restaurants.
All people experience differs in terms of their
aspects so you shall visit Hotel Villa Marsili by yourself and then
experience differently.
“No body can give you the feel of villas
as Hotel Villa Marsili gives”
Hotel Villa Marsili is one of the most beautiful
Cortona
Villas and Hotels at just few kilometers away from the border
line that separates Tuscany from Umbria.
IThe sun beats down with particular
sweetness on this last part of Tuscany and in all seasons , it lends
discoveries to the spiritual areas, where the active imagination
can be tempted to recover, in an embrace, the past and the present
in a dream aroused by art and history. Still alive, present in the
museums, in the archaeological ruins, in the monuments, in the historic
centres, and In the countryside itself are the proves of an uninterrupted
succession of cultures : Palaeolithic, Etruscan, Roman, Medieval
and Renaissance.
The Valdichiana is the perfect place for visitors not only because
of the beauty of the natural countryside and the gentleness of the
climate but also for its well-preserved cultural heritage. The Valdichiana
is a lovely area blessed by a mild clime and its varied and interesting
countryside is completely unspoiled. The region is also famous for
its wonderful bread, wine and olive oil.
On a 600 m high hill, at just few kilometres away from the border
line that separates Tuscany from Umbria, Cortona dominates the whole
Valdichiana.
Along the feature that gives to the plain door to the city, they
are filled of olive-trees and marked fields to terrace from walls
to dry, between which s' they nest sumptuous villas surrounded of
Holm oak, of pines and cypresses, farm houses, monasteries, monumental
churches that seems built up without appearing necessity, therefore
isolated as they are and therefore perfect in the huge purity of
the renaissance line, with cupolas, windows, bell cells, all in
clean stone of the place. A landscape that, like all that one of
the Tuscany, represents the marvellous fusion of the natural elements
and the human work, a lot that old and the new one has become "
contemporary " fruit of one same creative action.
The visitor that watches itself around from the high of its walls
will see one of the immense and harmonious panoramas of Italy: the
fertile, immense plain of the Val di Chiana, sluice to the horizon
from mounts of Siena between which they detach stand out Mount Amiata
and Mount Cetona and the great mirror of Lake Trasimeno. Its medieval
buildings and lanes give the town an evocative atmosphere. The Basilica
of Santa Margherita and the Franciscan Santuario delle Celle invite
the visitor to follow an itinerary of art and faith starting from
the upper side of Cortona. On the contrary, walking down via Nazionale,
now colled Ruga Piana, the only flat street in town, you reach Piazza
della Repubblica where are the Palazzo Comunale and Palazzo Casali,
once mansion of the noble family now seat of the Museo dell'Accademia
Etrusca ( collection of Etruscan and Roman finds). At the north
side of the town, opposite the Renaissance Cathedral, is the Diocesan
Museum which contains works by great local artists like Luca Signorelli
and an Annunciation by Fra Angelico, one of his most beautiful works.
Outside of town, at the foot of the hill, are the Meloni I and II
del Sodo, Etruscan tumulus tombs of the VI cent BC. Towards Foiano
della Chiana there is the Abbey of Santa Maria at Farneta which,
with its crypt, is one of the oldest Aretine Romanesque examples.
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