In the bedrooms of the Tuscan holiday farms in old peasant houses in Casentino you are surrounded by the mystic silence of century-old forests. Here Saint Francis of Assisi received the stigmata. And Michelangelo Buonarroti, Dante, D`Annunzio, Dino Campana and others found their inspiration. Allow yourself a trip far from the hectic city life at the discovery of the timeless dimension of nature.

Even during a brief stay, you cannot pass up the chance to do some excursions (sometimes organized by the holiday farm managers) in the wonderful Casentino forests up to the integral nature reserves of Sasso Fratino and La Pietra. The tracks of wild animals - wolves, foxes, badgers, weasels, beech martens, polecats, deer, fallow deer, roe-deer, mouflons, wild boars, hares, moles, squirrels, porcupines, etc.) will guide you! Both great hikers and stay-at-homes can hike along the pathways stretching in the National Park.

When you are on holiday, you should never renounce to good cuisine. In the restaurants of the holiday farms in Casentino let you be tempted by local culinary specialities: bruschetta with black cabbage, tortelli with potato filling, legume soups, cheeses (pecorino from the Casentino, ricotta, raviggiolo, etc.) The main ingredient of the Tuscan traditional dishes? The chestnut, either fresh, dried or ground. Chestnut flour is used to prepare bread, polenta, baldino (a cake made with pine-kernels, muscat grape and rosemary), etc.