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Montorio, accomodation in Tuscany, holiday exclusive apartments.
All the apartments are furnished in a caracteristic charming Tuscan style.
One or two bedroom apartments, all with indipendent heating, satellite tv, wi fi connection telephone, full optional kitchen and laundry facility.
The apartments can be rent starting every day of the week with a minimum of 3 nigth stay and to ensure a relax vacation, daily cleaning is included in the rate ( except on sunday)..
Montorio , located in the beautiful South of Tuscany , has a unique location, on the top of a private hill with a gorgeous view of the Tuscan hills.It is in the country side but also in a walking distance to the center of Montepulciano.
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Apartment Antonio da Sangallo
The Sangallo is the largest of our five
apartments having a square footage of circa 90 mē. The uniqueness of
this apartment is its magnificent 360˚ panoramic view of the underlying
valley. Access to the apartment is from an external flight of stairs.
The main entrance opens into a spacious sitting room with a living room
and dinning area. Adjacent to this is a fully equipped kitchen inclusive
of all utensils including a dishwasher. Mounting two steps one enters
the sleeping quarters. There are two bedrooms; one is a double room and
the other can have double bed or twin beds. There is a large bathroom with a shower
and an ample lumber-room for luggage and whatever other personal
belongings.
Apartment Agnolo Poliziano
The Poliziano is approximately 60 mē and
is accessed by its exclusive small courtyard that makes it a haven of
privacy. The main entrance opens directly into the living room/dinning
area with the adjacent fully equipped kitchen that includes a
dishwasher. The two double bedrooms are entered from the living room.
There is a bathroom with a shower.
Apartment S. Roberto Bellarmino
From an external flight of stairs one
enters an exceptionally intimate and cosy lodgings of about 40 mē
positioned to the southeast. The entrance opens into the living room
with its kitchenette and dinning area. In the next room there is the
living room. Going up two steps one enters the sleeping quarters with a
double bedroom with a mezzanine and a bathroom with a shower.
Apartment S. Agnese Segni
This comfortable one-roomed apartment is
35 mē and is positioned to the south. Due to its particular ubication
within the Montorio country house, this snug little jewel benefits a
singular climatic advantage over the other apartments by being the
coolest in the summer and the warmest in the winter. The entrance opens
into an ample room where both the sleeping area with its double bed and
dinning area are to be found. Next to this room there is a bathroom and
a spacious kitchen.
Apartment Francesco Redi
This is the smallest of our apartments. It
is 28 mē and is beautifully decorated and very inviting. The Redi lends
itself best to the traveller who is just passing through for a short
sojourn and wishes to dedicate his day to visiting and discovering the
natural and architectural wonders of the valley. The Redi is entered via external flight of
stairs where its door opens to the sitting/dinning room with a
kitchenette. Next to this is a bedroom with a queen size bed. Going down
two steps there is a bathroom complete with a shower.
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Antonio da Sangallo (the Elder)
1455-1535, was a member of an exceptional family of Florentine
Renaissance architects. He began as a military architect in his younger
years but is best known for the major work of his life, the pilgrimage
church of the Madonna di San Biago at Montepulciano, which lies directly
under Montorio.
Agnolo Poliziano was born on
July 14, 1454 in Montepulciano and died in Florence on September 28/29,
1494. He was a poet and humanist, the friend and protégé of Lorenzo the
Magnificent and one of the foremost classical scholars of the
Renaissance.
Saint Roberto Bellarmino was
born on October 4, 1542 in Montepulciano and died on September 17, 1621
in Rome and Canonized in 1930; feast day September 17. he was an Italian
cardinal and theologian, an opponent of the Protestant doctrines of the
Reformation and he took a prominent part in the first examination of
Galileo. Bellarmino took a personal interest in the poor, to whom he
gave all his funds. He died a pauper. During his lifetime he gave
impartial attention to Protestant works and was regarded as one of the
most enlightened of theologians. Pope Pius XII named him a doctor of the
church in 1931.
Saint Agnese Segni was born in
Gracciano, a small village just outside of Montepulciano, in 1268. She
became a nun at the age of nine and was elected abbess of the abbey of
Prosceno in Viterbo. Her life was one of continual contemplation of
heavenly matters. In 1306 she founded the Dominican monastery of
Montepulciano where her embalmed body is laid out. Saint Agnese died on
April 20, 1317, leaving behind memories of her holy life and her
miracles. She is one of the patron saints of Montepulciano.
Francesco Redi was born on
Feburary 19, 1626 in Arezzo and died on March 1, 1697 in Pisa. He was an
Italian physician and poet who demonstrated that the presence of maggots
in putrefying meat does not result from spontaneous generation but from
eggs laid on the meat by flies. As a poet Redi is known as a poet
chiefly for his Bacco in Toscana (1685; "Bacchus in Tuscany") where he
describes the wine of Montepulciano as "the king of all wines". |
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