Pienza · Val d'Orcia · since 1999

Podere Colombaio

A ground-floor apartment in a 15th-century farmhouse, with a pergola over the valley and Pienza ten minutes away on foot.

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The house

A stone tower, a garden, and the valley in front of it.

Below Pienza the asphalt turns to gravel and the Val d'Orcia opens up. The farmhouse takes its name from its dovecote tower, standing here since the fifteenth century. The ground floor is yours.

Two apartments, one family: Lucia lives upstairs, guests stay on the ground floor. The upper flat is not rented out, so there are no other holidaymakers on the property. We have been welcoming travellers here for almost twenty-five years.

The stone façade of the farmhouse with ivy and a flowering oleander

Panorama of the Val d'Orcia from the property, Monte Amiata on the horizon

The apartment

Seventy-five square metres, and a door onto the pergola.

A calm kitchen and living room with a fireplace, two bedrooms, two bathrooms — and a brick archway that opens straight onto the pergola and the view.

75 m²: Interior
4: Guests
2: Bedrooms
2: Bathrooms
Ground: Floor

Rooms

Kitchen and living room with fireplace
Bedroom with double bed
Second bedroom: two singles or a double
Two bathrooms, one with bathtub
Small storage room
Pergola and lawn in front of the apartment, with parking

Included

Wi‑Fi
Dishwasher
Oven
TV
Washing machine (shared laundry)
Bed and bath linen
Fireplace + firewood
Private parking
Garden furniture and loungers
Pergola with dining table

Gas heating is not included in the rate and is billed separately according to actual consumption (per cubic metre). Firewood for the fireplace is available. Check-in to be arranged at least one day in advance.

The living room with its stone fireplace and vaulted brick ceiling

Bedroom with beamed-and-tiled ceiling and terracotta floor

The bathroom with bathtub, marble basin and stone window

The table laid under the pergola, in the shade of the vine, ready for lunch

Outside

You eat under the pergola, with the valley in front of you.

Breakfast, lunch or dinner outside, at the table under the brick arch. The lawn in front of the pergola is yours all the way down: chairs, tables and loungers, and where the grass ends, one of the most beautiful valleys in the world.

The view

The same lawn, four times a year.

Nothing here is staged: these are the seasons as they arrive at the end of the garden. Green wheat in May, gold in July, mist in November.

Gallery

The house, the rooms, the valley.

Around

Pienza is a ten-minute walk. The rest is a World Heritage landscape.

You are inside the Val d'Orcia Park, one kilometre from the centre of Pienza — the Renaissance ideal city, its pecorino, its balconies over the valley.

1 km · 10 minutes on foot

Pienza

Pope Pius II rebuilt his birthplace as the first planned Renaissance town. Cathedral, Palazzo Piccolomini, cheese shops and a terrace along the walls looking straight at Monte Amiata.