Most of times deciding to visit the land of the grand dukes with relatives and friends means spending several hours in browsing through dozens of catalogues or visiting websites full of rental offers for typical Tuscan farms and farmhouses.

Most of times... but not always!

If you are looking for something different for your one or more-week stay, you can always fix your attention on the many modern villas standing everywhere in Tuscany .

• Provided with all comforts (wi-fi Internet connection, satellite TV, air conditioning, whirlpool bathtubs and so on), they can be considered like hotels at your exclusive disposal.

• In the surrounding gardens, where you can relax while reading a book or organize a barbecue with your friends, lie swimming pools (sometimes open all the year long), tennis courts or five-a-side-football fields.

• Last but not least, most of them were built in the last decades of the past century in the countryside close to the most renowned cities of art. A real godsend for those girls and ladies who like doing shopping in haute-couture shops in Florence or in goldsmiths` workshops in Arezzo... just to make some examples.

So, if you are looking for something different from the usual farm or farmhouse where to spend your holidays, think about Tuscan modern villas.