Castello Di Velona
A luxury Castle in the heart of Tuscan Renaissance: an open window on the landscape of history. Medieval Fortalice of the XI century the most ancient visible part today is the watch-out tower of the XII century that was theatre of fights between the Republic of Siena and the one of Florence . The principal loggia is of the Renaissance epoch in which the castle was turned into a residential villa. In the same period the Velona was depicted in the geographic papers painted by Ignazio Danti at the Vatican . A copy of them does exist into the library of the castle. Instead of taste-medieval mole is the back side built in slow epoch. A court opened to the routes of the art. The road that follows the cost of the castle at valley it is marked on ancient geographic papers with the Via Clodia name the old Roman road of the first century A.C. in which the southern Etruria was joining Rome. In the vicinity strokes there are visible hips of the Via Francigena route covered by writers artists famous brigands and pilgrims who in the Middle Ages were going to Rome for the jubilee. In the adjacent zones of the castle important Etruscan finds were found today preserved in the Montalcino museum. Indulged by now in ruin in 1997 the castle was bought from a private family and they commissioned the reorganization turning the castle into a luxury Relais preserving his original structure and keeping the characteristics of an ancient House of the Countryside alive.
Facilities at Castello Di Velona
- Air conditioning in rooms
- 24 Hour Reception
- Babysitting services
- Wi-Fi Available
- Restaurant
- Outdoor Pool
- Jacuzzi
- TV
- Satellite TV
- Hairdryer in each room
- Minibar in each room
- Telephone In Each Room
- Laundry/Valet Service
- Wi-Fi Available In Public Areas
- Bar
- Breakfast to go
- Mountain Bike Hire