House Details
Spacious farm house with lots of natural light
2,583 square feet / 240 square meters
Three bedrooms with a fourth walk-through bedroom. We can accommodate up to 7 adults plus children.
Option 1: 3 king beds and 2 single beds
Option 2: 1 king bed and configurable up to 7 single beds
Four full bathrooms
4 full baths, one on the ground floor
Spaces
3 Living Room areas, one upstairs
Dining Room
Kitchen
Outdoor Patios (4 separate areas)
Scenic sunset viewing area with picnic table
Multiple gardens and olive groves
On-site parking
Laundry room
Swimming pool
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Bedroom 1
A king-sized bed, two windows with stunning views of Tuscan fields and hillsides. Has an en suite bathroom, a walk-in closet, and is connected to Bedroom #3 which has two single beds.
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Bedroom 2
A king-sized bed and an additional single bed, a modern en suite bathroom, and a large shuttered window overlooking the western garden and lots of sky.
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Bedroom 3
A king-sized bed, medium-sized room with private bathroom directly across the hall. Shuttered window overlooks the eastern garden and olive groves.
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Bedroom 4
A one-of-a-kind room next to the upstairs living room, with a connecting door to Bedroom #1. It has two single beds, ample space, and is perfect for family members including children.
History as told Momo Brubeck, proprietor
The old podere ( a working farm) was lived in for centuries by generations of contadini until two years before my parents bought it in 1972. While wanting to maintain the simplicity of a historical farmhouse with its hand-hewn doors and manger boards, they created a warm and welcoming environment, filled with Moroccan rugs, books to be read, and corners to curl up in. The kitchen is wonderful to work in: long travertine counters, a stainless stovetop and modern dishwasher, an old work table, windows illuminate the space with double doors to the terrace.
Olive groves, fruit trees and cypress surround the house, where there is a large aia, a flat open space once used for beating grain but now space for open-air dinners. Outside the arched doors that run the length of the front of the house are pots of geraniums. Lemons line the terrace wall, lavender and roses are spotted about, and jasmine climbs the walls.
I’ve been coming here since I was five years old, but only took full responsibility for the house in the 1990s. For the past fifteen years I have sculpted the grounds, planted gardens, reset ancient stone walls and paths and tended the olives, all in a way that best preserves and respects the centuries of intense labor that went into cultivating this land.
I want my guests to enjoy the house, the land, and, very importantly the village, with its crooked stone streets and the amazing human warmth and spirit which makes this village so special.
Momo Brubeck