Expansion of Farm Holiday Accommodation in Tuscany
The history of farm holiday accommodation in Tuscany dates back to the first few years of the ‘60s, a period in which agricultural activity in the countryside began to diminish progressively and the rural population began to move more and more towards the nearby cities of Florence and Siena. The concept was born from the need of the farmer or of the farm to find alternative sources of income compatible with the agricultural activity that was becoming less and less profitable.
Farm Holiday Accommodation and the Municipality of Montaione
It was precisely in the municipality of Comune di Montaione in the province of Florence following a couple of praiseworthy and certainly innovative and audacious initiatives, see “Casa di riposo Villa serena” ( t.n. Villa Serena rest home) and “Hapimag Village” in Tonda, that the inhabitants and the farmers of Montaione identified in the Farm Holiday Accommodationactivity a new source of income and began to rent rural apartments left empty or no longer used in agriculture to foreigners. We would not want to be too presumptuous in supporting the idea that farm holidays in Tuscany drew their origin from the area of Montaione and the surrounding area.
The municipality of Montaione, for its part, has stimulated the Farm Holiday Accommodation activity that has prospered both thanks to the wonderful Tuscany countryside in the vicinity of Montaione, and to the proximity of tourist destinations such as San Gimignano, Volterra and Certaldo and, considering its centrality, also in relation to the great historical neighbouring centres. It is not a case that the municipality of Montaione boasts the highest number of tourists in the province of Florence.
Over the course of the years, Farm Holiday Accommodation in Tuscany has seen a gradual improvement of the quality of the provision of services and of the tourist structures; many of them have installed swimming pools, other even greater structures provide modern tourists with other modern comforts such as: tennis courts, services of riding schools, air conditioning in the apartments, reception services in order to inform and to help their own customers, or kitchen and painting courses, in order to render the stay of the guests more comfortable and interesting.
As further proof of how much the area of Montaione is to be considered an excellent choice for the tourist is the news at the moment that the TUI (the greatest European and perhaps world-wide tour operator) has acquired the property of Castelfalfi, which is a small village in the municipality of Montaione, with the intention of realizing a tourist centre with many facilities. If the Tui, which has the opportunity of investing all over the world at prices decidedly more competitive than those in Tuscany, has decided to invest here, there must be a reason!
Near Volterra and San Gimignano, the Belmonte Residence offers an excellent starting point for your walks in old Tuscany !
Tuscany Farm vacations