da wheeleran | Dic 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
Siena has its famous horse race, Il Palio, but Manciano has, well, this: rooted in Tuscan tradition but a relatively modern creation, the Palio delle Botti, the barrel race, now involves the whole town at the end of August, where teams from each of the six districts...
da wheeleran | Dic 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Merry Christmas from Casa Capalbio . And if your thought ARE turning to your summer holidays, come and stay with us! We have two apartments, Casa Blu and Casa Terra, just outside the old city walls of Capalbio in Tuscany, looking down over the nature reserve and the...
da wheeleran | Dic 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
In the valley at the bottom of the hill below Capalbio is the excavated ruins of Villa Settefinestre, a large Roman villa built by the rich and powerful Volusii family in the 1st century BC. The Volusii were influential senators and slave owners, and the villa was a...
da wheeleran | Dic 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
The winding northern coastal road leading to Port Santo Stefano on the Argentario peninsula was where many rich Roman nobles built magnificent villas and baths, the most famous of which were the ruins of Villa Domiziana on strada Liberata, and Villa Dentiliana in...
da wheeleran | Dic 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
There is some dispute and confusion about the exact location of the ancient Etruscan city of Volsinii. Noone knows where it was, but we do know is that it was an important city and the site of the shrine of Voltumna where the priests and leaders of the twelve...
