Villa Campestri Olive Oil Resort Vicchio

General Information

Bungalow Campestri is situated 35 kms North from Florence. It's a splendid renaissance cottage in a specially idyllic situation, set on a hillside at 450 m above the sea level and overlooking across the Mugello vale and the Chianti Rufina region. The Villa is encircled by lawns, antique olive groves and shady oak and chestnut woodland. "L'Olivaia" Restaurant proposes peculiarities of Tuscan cuisine supplemented by the best local and Italian wines. In the cellars of the Villa the 1st ‘Oleoteca’ in Italy features been made, where we organise extra-virgin oil tasting courses with tours of the oil press for those interested in learning approximately the oil production process. The 1st records of the Villa date from the 13th century. At that time the nucleus of the Villa was a little defensive fortress conserved by watchtowers, the remains of which able to calm be seen today. A necessary architectural intervention, which gave the structure its present appearance as a renaissance Villa, took spot in the late seventeenth centuty. The opulent Florentine Roti Michelozzi family held ownership of the Villa and the nearby lands for nearly 700 years till 1989, when they sold complete Campestri property to the present owner, Paolo Pasquali. The restoration business undertaken by its recent owner features maintained its spell intact. Key architectural and structural has have been kept, and the Villa features been painstakingly renewed to its former glory using original materials such as old terracotta floor tiles, original plaster, polychromatic caissoned wooden ceilings and antique carved oak beams.