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Farm Holidays PODERE SS. ANNUNZIATA II

Via del Castelluccio, 142, San Vincenzo (Livorno)

Tel. 0565 702144 Fax. 0565 702144 Mobile 347 3839580

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In Val di Cornia a farm is coming back to new and radiant life.
Author of this change is a woman, close to the old country traditions.
Bewitched by … SS. Annunziata II
Fields and sweetly undulated hills stretch to the coast.
Olivegroves become silver when they are lit by the sun and wheat and sunflower fields give off an old quiet.
In distance the sea sparkles and the profile of Corsica and Elba island appears on the horizon of Baratti gulf.
Beatrice has begun a new job since 1999: the former pianist is today a satisfied farmer and head of the agritourism SS. Annunziata II.
The land around the house (13 hectares of olivegroves, orchards and vegetable garden) gives good extra virgin olive oil, (which is used by Massaza to produce an old soap), fruit for the production of natural preserve and tasty vegetables.

For the guests there are five independent cottages from two up to six beds.
The two buildings, from which the five apartments have been erected, are typical tuscan manors: white, square, with the wood shutters and the pergola of sweet smelling strawberry grape.
The farmhouse is situated in a very quiet position, in the upper part of St. Vincenzo. It was built at the beginnings of 1900 and was composed by the barns, the stall, the cart road and the manor.
Only woman’s eyes could see here a place, where her dreams could become true.
Beatrice and her mother Cosetta tried to furnish the houses, according to the style of the typical farmhouse: the big wood beams of the ceiling, the old and renovated furniture, the old wrought-iron beds with fabric, sewed and renovated by the owners, the old sewing machines with the marble plans used as garden tables.
We can offer our guests:
“bed & breakfast": sleep and breakfast, not only with a simple cappuccino and croissant, but with bread and “schiacciate”, homemade jams of strawberry grape, oranges, sour oranges, green tomatoes and melon, and then fresh ricotta, cheese, honey and the homemade cakes, like the sweet salami and the Corollo with olive oil.
You can choose to stay in the apartment and to dine in the farm with typical land products of the season (on booking).
You will not find a formal atmosphere in S. Annunziata! You will enter our family: drink an aperitif all together under the pergola in the evening or talk to Beatrice in the kitchen, while she is preparing the preserve…
Our guests like returning to our farmhouse, especially with their children, who can have a break in a little wooden house or chase frogs in the stream.
No bottle of oil or piece of soap leaves S. Annunziata without wonderful decorations by Beatrice, who is a true artist. She uses natural raw materials for her decorations, like laurel, herbs, lavender, orange and lemon peels and raffia.
Talking to the old farmers, Beatrice discovered that olive oil is not only food, but also the main ingredient for the soap production. No sooner said than done! Considering that the farmhouse is based on organic products, she decided to produce a soap and bath-salts line without additives, which is perfumed with the essences of the garden, like sage, rosemary, lavender, laurel, and a natural exfoliating line with flour, sand and almonds.

In the beginning Beatrice produced a little soap only for her friends and guests. Later she decided to start a true production thanks to the good opinions, coming also from foreign countries.
In the “coppaio”, (where olive oil was preserved) you can enjoy delicious typical dinners and rich breakfasts, and find a didactic laboratory about olive oil.
A sweet-smelling tactile garden was built specifically for children and blind
Where we are
Thanks to the good position of this farmhouse, you can easily reach the most beautiful tuscan cities like Florence, Pisa, Volterra, Lucca, Siena and Livorno in less than two hours.
In twenty minutes you drive to Baratti gulf with the archaeological park, the Etruscan necropolis and the village Populonia with its castle.
Five kilometres away, there is the pond Calidario, a thermal spring, open the whole year, and the thermal centre of Caldana, where it is possible to make mineral water therapies.
Ten kilometres away, you will find “the archeominerario park” of San Silvestro, the only one in Europe, and the middle age villages Campiglia Marittima and Suvereto.
From Piombino (only 20 km away) you can reach by ferry the islands of the Tuscan archipelago, a natural and sea park, among which also Elba island.
In the surroundings, it is possible to find typical antique markets and folk-festivals in every time of the year.