Casa Pretello

Description from the manager

Tucked away in an intimate valley close to Arezzo, Casa Pretello was restored by the Swiss artist owner 30 years ago. It still has the simple and unpretentious air of an ancient Tuscan farmhouse, with spacious airy rooms, an enormous fireplace and large chestnut beams. A swimming pool on the hillside close to the house shares its views of olive groves, cypress and holm oaks and helps make it a wonderful low-key place for a family to stretch out and relax.

A cypress-lined road leads to this warm-hued stone farmhouse and stairs under a covered loggia bring you up to the first floor and the room that would have been the heart of the workin...g farmhouse. Now it is a wonderfully large kitchen-living-dining room, with a walk-in fireplace and a table for six. Off this room is a large double bedroom, which spans the width of the house; for all of its comfortable country furniture and charming iron bedstead, this room still feels large enough for a dance step or two. Also off the kitchen is another double bedroom, a large blue-tiled bathroom with both tub and shower, and a spiral staircase leading downstairs to what were once the stables of the farmhouse, strategically placed to utilize the heat of the cattle to warm the upper floor. Now the ground floor houses a double bedroom with an extra single bed for a child and a door to the front of the house, and another bath/shower room. Also on this floor is a living area with TV, a library and most importantly, a door to a spacious furnished terrace with wonderful views over the valley.

Casa Pretello is ideally placed for visiting the artistic cities of Arezzo, Florence and Siena. Or you could simply follow the trail of Piero della Francesca and see one of the most beautiful paintings in the world (pace Leonardo), the fresco of the pregnant Madonna in Monterchi only 20 minutes away. Even so, it will be difficult to leave such a relaxing house, with its airy rooms, beautiful views and inviting swimming pool.

Check-In: 5:00 to 8:00 pm

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