All you need to know of the Florentine hills

Florentine Hills

Art, culture, history and food and wine meet among the rolling hills of the Florentine countryside.

These landscapes form the frame of a majestic painting, made of architectural and artistic jewels such as castles, palaces, monuments, towns, and churches.

Capital of the province of Tuscany, the cradle of the Italian Renaissance, cultural and artistic center worldwide, Florence can offer anyone who crosses it for just one day all the magic of a wonderful bridge between past, present, and future.

1 Food and wine

In the green heart of the Florentine hills, the AperinVigna returns on Wednesday from 19.30 to 22.30.

 A journey to discover the Tuscan roots between wine tasting, good food, and the charm of the sunset.

Tasting of five IGT wines of our production and menus made by Gastronomy La Massa, Incisa Valdarno.

Podere Ema, was born from the desire to transmit years of passion, experience, and love for Tuscan wine. The Company produces great wines using only native grapes, which exalt and strengthen the concept of "Pure Tuscan".

Aperitif in the vineyard, nothing more Tuscan

2 Art and Culture

Nestled in the green hills of Florence, they carry on the ancient tradition of weaving silk, gold and silver by hand.

The Lisio Foundation in its environment dominates large manual looms of the late nineteenth century that lend themselves to the creation of exclusive fabrics, under the expert hands of master weavers who work again as once.

They teach the art of weaving through targeted and professionalizing educational activities, where theory and practice management to merge and finalize a high and complete training.

Guided tours can be booked. Also on request, it is possible to combine conferences on different topics or manual workshops for children, to learn basic techniques.

Book a visit to learn about the ancient tradition of hand-weaving of silk, gold and silver.

3 Outdoors

The Trebbio Castle, already owned by the Medici family since 1309, preserves intact the genius of the Florentine architect Michelozzo Michelozzi.

Trebbio became a castle around 1364, when a fortified wall was built, crowned by an external walkway that connected the tower with two adjacent buildings. It was then, according to the chronicles, Michelozzo during the early fifteenth century, for Giovanni di Bicci dei Medici and his son Cosimo, to realize the wonderful unicum, the villa-castle which today we admire accompanied by the loggia and the beautiful pergola garden.

In the mid-fifteenth century, the Trebbio was destined to Cosimo’s nephew, Pier Francesco, and in the summer of 1476 Amerigo Vespucci briefly stayed there. At the end of the century, Botticelli worked there.

Between art, history and nature, take advantage of this visit to experience an excursion inside a castle to discover all its secrets.

4 Activities with the little ones

The Paleontological Museum of Empoli offers many ideas of knowledge of our planet through collections of fossils, reconstructions and educational tools, and a closer look at the area of Tuscany and the Valdarno.

At the museum there is a tactile-sensory path that allows the user to be an active subject that searches, discovers, analyzes, processes, interprets and understands in a direct way.

Discover the last 2 billion years of Earth’s history

5 With your loved one

A unique and enchanted location like that of Fiesole, will be the setting for your dinner, the chef will delight you with dishes made using the farm’s seasonal organic products.

Dinner for two people with full menu (to be agreed at the time of booking choosing from the dishes proposed by the chef depending on the season), including the entrance to the botanic garden.

For a romantic experience of love