Villa IL COLTO is a beautiful villa on three floors, counts 6 bedrooms, 3
doubles and 3 twins (one of twins can be made double), and 5 bathrooms,
located in the countryside just outside of a small town. Due to its location on the
top of a small hill, it is thought that the villa was once a look out tower for a
nearby castle. It was later transformed into a family villa and was once owned
bythe renowned Medici family from Florence. It is a perfect base, for exploring
Florence (35 mins) and Chianti. It is also within easy reach of and Arezzo (30
mins) and Siena (1 hour). The villa is set in a garden with its own heated
private pool, hot tub spa and panoramic terracev with views to the
surrounding countrysideand towards the local town, which has avariety of local
shops as well as a supermarket, restaurants and bars (1km).
The pool area is located close to the house on a sun terrace and can be
accessed through glass doors in the ground floor living room / dining room. The
pool is 8 x 4 mts and there is an outdoor BBQ for eating at the poolside. The
house is set in large grounds (2 hectares), on the top of a little hill and the
garden extends down the slopes into pretty olive groves and orchards. As one
of the past owners was an expert in Botanics the garden has some rare species
of lime tress from the Lebanon, ancient cypress trees, and a variety of fruit trees
as well as olives. The house is superbly equipped
