The centenary of Mati nursery in Pistoia

Pistoia is a city of the nursery, an important center where many buyers flock Europe and beyond.
Living in this province would like to highlight the centennial
of Mati nursery company .
Mati's family who for 4 generations pursues this task by maintaining the prestige obtained by its founder Casimiro Mati.
The Mati plants nurseries are located in different areas of the land Pistoiese where every species has its natural terrain for a good, healthy growth.

Who plan for a trip to Tuscany, even for a short stay, could take this opportunity to visit the Pistoia nurseries , it could be a pleasant space of time devoted to themselves because among green and flowers we rejoin nature of which are part.

Well, for your stay I invite you for a stay at the bed and breakfast
Il Podere di Toscana , where a special garden pampers you further and the style of the rooms will be an added pleasure.

Gardening courses springtime in Tuscany Pistoia

Marvellous occasion it is offered at the bed and breakfast Il Podere di Toscana's guests. Gardening courses organized on place for you. Learn how to cut flowers, pruning trees, cutting aromatic herbs, knowledge the indigegenous flowers in the property itself, how to extract the seeds and use them. All in your hands during your stay at the enchanting bed and breakfast Il Podere di Toscana.

It is required a minum of 4 people for a stay long more than 3 nights.

Come to visiti us in Pistoia's hills, at Il Podere di Toscana

30th May Open Cellars day in Tuscany Pistoia

Sunday the 30th of May is reserved for wineries all over Italy as they open up their cellars and vineyards for free tastings. The big event “Cantine Aperte” involve all wine producers since 17 years.
We suggest a marvellous trip from our Bed and Breakfast Il Podere di Toscana to Vinci, 20km, away. In this excursion you can visit the open cellar Le Cantine di Leonardo da Vinci, enchanting surroundings, great opportunity to match culture in visiting the Museum of Leonardo and to taste the Brunello, Chianti Classico , Pinot Grigio.
We invite you to follow our suggestion sure that you will have a fantastic day.

Charming Holidays House, BB Il Podere di Toscana

Just few words to introduce to you the new opening of the bed and breakfast of charme Il Podere di Toscana, situated in the Montalbano's Hills close to the chied town of Pistoia.

A fantastic cosy little bourg with rooms and apartments very well equipped for a wonderfull relaxing stay.

Wood of 6 hectars with signed paths for walking or for biking, pool, wireless in the whole property, inside to each room and outside in the entertainment points.

Charming restaurant for the house guests where is served the breakfast.

All rooms are provided with sitting room, minibar, TV sat, and some with private funrished open space.

Very particular prices for the new opening, 20% reduction to the 26the September.

Visit the website and contact me for any question.

Thanks

Loli

http://www.ilpodereditoscana.it/

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Glazed terracotta sculptures and paintings De La Robbia

Glazed terracotta sculptures and paintings De La Robbia
Arezzo exibition at State Museum of Medieval and Modern Art 21 Februar –7th June

Arezzo and its territory, a journey to discover the masterpieces of the Della Robbia, a route that allows you to read and understand thoroughly the meaning and value of an extraordinary of which remain important testimonies in churches, parishes and palaces. A path that develops in the area - Casentino, Valdarno, Valdichiana, Valtiberina - in various routes of great ideas, where art and nature are intertwined in a mixture of absolute fascination. A trip to a land which has always made the choice, whose traces are visible in the archaeological sites and museums in many popular, and especially Archaeological Arezzo. Earth and heart dell'Etruria drawn from Casentino, goes so far to Cortona, where recent excavations have unearthed evidence of an admirable of the most mysterious and fascinating. Places where nature and spirituality have inspired poets such as Dante and Petrarch, painters like Leonardo, Michelangelo, Vasari and the guarded silence of S. Francis and S. Romualdo in hermitages of Verna and Camaldoli. Land of Romei on its way to the eternal city in search of a more sacred in this austere Romanesque churches on the slopes of Pratomagno or figures of Piero della Francesca.

For your vacation this fantastic Villa available at a reasonable price for a party of 10/12 people

http://www.traditional-tuscany.com/annunci-detail-cat-9-de-116.html

Traditional Dish of Arezzo " La Scottiglia"

This is an ancient dish, very common in farms country. The peasant used for cooking the less noble parts of the meat of the animals slaughtered in the day, because the best quality of the meat was belonging to the farms’owners or for selling it. In the evening, when the laborers were returning from the fields, even in a world without television, the families were "to find" friends of the neighboring farms and by the fireplace the women cooked in the most tastfull way the pieces of meat, from this tradition came out this recipe, La Scottiglia.
Ingredients:

1 kg. mixed meat, including pork, veal, chicken, rabbit, pigeon and guinea fowl;
500 gr. of tomato sauce
250 gr. of meat broth
1 onion
3 cloves of garlic
1 red pepper Parsley (a handful),
basil (a bit of leaves)
1 glass of white wine
Slices of Tuscan bread
Half cup of extra virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper
Retrieve this recipe of our tradition: the onion is minced so fine enough with two cloves of garlic, parsley and basil. We take the earthenware pan, we put the oil , onion, garlic and and let them sauté slowly, adding the chilli. When the vegetables are colorful, we add the meat, cut into pieces, continuing to turn getting often wine and meat broth. Finally we add the mixed tomatoes, salt and pepper and we cook until the sauce will get thick showing a nice dark red color.
Then we toast the slices of bread rubbing them with garlic.
Put in a tray the bread’s slices and pour on them the stewed mix meat wiping the last remaining clove and garlic. And we taste the special dish called La Scottiglia, tradition dish of Arezzo town.

In typical restaurant in Arezzo or in Cortona we find this dish perfectly following the local tradition.

If you decide for a stay, Margherita, the owner of this beautiful organic farmhouse producing a very high quality of Extra Virgin Olive Oil , will give you the best tip where to enjoy the Casentino'area kitchen.

Cortona Arezzo Farmhouse