Holiday home la Cumbrina 6Lucca - Tuscany/Elba - Italy (IT-25115)

Our charming home is a particularly pretty 18th century villa set on the hills that surround the medieval city of Lucca, just beside a small, 11th century church. Large windows facing the valley flood the ground floor rooms with sunshine, highlighting burnished terracotta floors, beamed ceilings and antique furnishings. The property boasts an immaculately maintained, walled garden with beautiful century-old trees, rockeries and extensive lawns that lead down to a swimming pool. La Cumbre is the ideal retreat after a day spent exploring the medieval town of Lucca and the surrounding countryside. Outdoor seating areas are scattered about the grounds, and the highlight for guests is a very large loggia where up to 16 can dine al fresco at a long table, or even play a game of table tennis. A small guest house for 2 is set on the far side of the loggia. Please let us know a couple of days before arrival if you would you like to have double or twin beds on the two rooms on the second floor? cots in any specific room (double or twin)? would you like us to put up some safety gates in the proximity of the various staircases? we also do have two High Chairs with or without the tray; I have three children of my own and my sister has two so we do know very well how certain small things would make your holiday a little more easy. On your arrival you will find our suggestions on things to do and a list of selected restaurants (our closest recommended is IL MECENATE just 300 meters from home tel. +39 0583 512167 or website www.ristorantemecenate.it and we enclose some comments on those others listed below). I also wish to link you to some additional information from the web and from the local Tourist Office that you may find of some interest (you may visit the websites http://www.luccaitinera.info/inglese/index.php or http://en.luccaonline.it/ or http://www.luccatourist.it/?cambialingua=en or call +39 0583 583150 or 495730 or 583 919931 and ask for the opening times): - the historic residential villas such as the renaissance Villa Bernardini (http://www.villabernardini.it/en/ Via di Vicopelago 573/A; tel. +39 0583 370327 / 328 8238199 and Villa Rossi (http://www.villarossilucca.it/home_en.html Via Villa Altieri 1672; tel. +39 0583 510867 / 333 2024927) both just 500 meters from the property and others http://www.villelucchesi.net/sito/ville_eng.html http://www.palazzopfanner.it/pfanner_palace_lucca_garden_residence_museum_tours_events-1-En.html -Torre Guinigi http://www.comune.lucca.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/131 0583-48524/491205 - the “wine and oil” driving www.stradavinoeoliolucca.it (in Italian) - Puccini festival at the open air theatre in Torre del Lago (18 kms from Lucca) http://www.puccinifestival.it/website/eng/index.asp# - Lucca Theatre at Teatro del Giglio and Teatro San Girolamo http://www.teatrodelgiglio.it/ - pop music concerts in July http://www.summer-festival.com/lucca/ - http://www.luccamusica.it/ - Florence (the Uffizi http://www.uffizi.com/online-ticket-booking-uffizi-gallery.asp or other museums in Florence (http://www.florence-museum.com/) and Pisa (the bending tower http://www.opapisa.it/index.php?id=216&L=1&T=2) - the beaches and golf clubs in Forte dei Marmi (http://www.versiliagolf.it/home/index.php?lang=english) and in Tirrenia close to Pisa Airport (http://www.golftirrenia.it/en/index.asp); - the cosy coloured fishers and hill villages of Cinque Terre (http://www.parconazionale5terre.it/trasporti_2.asp?id_lingue=2). For updated weather forecast in Lucca http://www.lamma.rete.toscana.it/previ/ita/comuni_rt/comlu/index.html (in Italian). We are looking forward to have your away email and mobile contacts and learn your estimated time of arrival at home on Saturday afternoon between 16.00 and 19.00; we wish you a very nice holiday as your “home away from home.