The Chianti Area

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The Versilia

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The Mugello

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THE CHIANTI AREA

Located in the heart of Tuscany, has always been disputed between Florence and Siena, Chianti is a vast hilly area known throughout the world for the countryside, where they alternate in a mosaic perfect, castles, vineyards, olive groves, dry stone walls, woods and streams. In a world devastated industrial and urbanization, Chianti has not yet lost its original understanding between man and nature and protecting, harmonically embedded in a campaign moving, intact medieval villages like Fonterutoli, Volpaia, Tregole, Barbischio, Montefioralle, churches and abbeys unique in the world, as Spaltenna, Badia a Passignano, Cedda, Badia a Coltibuono, and majestic castles and enchanted as Brolio Albola, Montegrossi and Lamole. This territory, however, it offers also an amazing diversity of beautiful natural environment and numerous rare plant and animal species. The great forests of oak and chestnut dell'Arbia the upper valleys of the Pesa and Greve, flowing sinuous and cashed thousand streams where they live, undisturbed, the salamander and the alpine newt, the pastures of the mountain ridge that comes from Gaiole in Greve , where you can admire the endless views Pratomagno, Valdarno, the Elsa and the Crete Senesi, the cypress groves of the Chianti Val d'Elsa ordered sharpening the rugged slopes of the hills in a desolate landscape is fascinating; the oak and juniper woodlands of the southern slopes alternating with calcareous grasslands where orchids bloom and fly colorful butterflies found anywhere else.

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