"Colori Toscani Holiday house" is a 150-year-old quarry-stone house, only recently totally restored, and situated in a calm position at the edge of one Tuscan village close to Lucca.
Surrounded by olive-trees and a beautiful extended garden with lots of flowers, fruit- and lemon-trees, a banana-tree, palms and fragrant bushes like rosemary, lavender and oleander, it's the ideal place for relaxing. From here you can enjoy marvellous views over olive-groves up to the Monte Pisano, which separates this valley from the sea, responsible for a pleasant mild climate.
Only 9 km away, you find Lucca, the marvellous medieval city, birthplace of G. Puccini and well-known around the world for its unique and completely maintained city walls. What is more, the near - but inaudible - motorway brings you in short time (30 - 60 min.) to all interesting cities of Tuscany like Pisa, San Gimignano, Pistoia, Siena, Florence, Carrara with its famous marble quarries, Vinci with a Leonardo Museum, Volterra with an Etruscan Museum and Collodi with the Pinocchio Park. From "Colori Toscani" you can easily go to spas like Montecatini Terme (15 km), San Giuliano Terme (10 km) and Bagni di Lucca (20 km) or visit the splendid Capannori's villas like Villa Reale, Villa Torrigiani, Villa Mansi, Villa Mazzarosa, ecc. The Versilia's sea is near (30 min.); you can go to seaside resorts like Viareggio, Forte dei Marmi, Lido di Camaiore and Torre del Lago with its Puccini Festival. Alternatively you can take a ship to Elba and the Tuscan Archipelago, a very beautiful sea-park.Back in the evening, after a delicious Tuscan dinner in one of the nearby restaurants, for example La Cantina di Alfredo (2 km), La Casina delle Rose (5km), La Conca (2 km), Palajola (3 km), La Baracca di Nanni (5 km) or Il Gattino Bianco (1 km), you may let the day come to and end on the homey terrace of "Colori Toscani Holiday house" with a good glass of wine, bought in one of the numerous wine-growing estates along the wine-road on the hills around Lucca.
In summer don't miss the sagras in the several villages, where the local residents and the tourists enjoy the prevailing local specialities like mushrooms, polenta, tortelli and beans, drinking and dancing together the whole evening.
The owner of "Colori Toscani Holiday House" would be happy to arrange for your further stay any kind of activities you desire. Choose from language courses, wine tours, cooking, outdoor adventures like ballooning (www.luccaballoonclub.it) skydiving and skiing, biking and mountain biking, trekking, jogging. You can also golf, tennis, riding, swimming, fitness or, if you prefer, painting, drawing and even schiatzu. A keep-fit trail with picnic tables is about 3 km from the house in the green hills of the "Compitese", several kilometres long, in the heart of the Tuscan country.