Zone: Center Italia
Area: Tuscany
District: Grosseto
Location: Castel del Paino
Address: Strada vicinale di capovelli


www.agri-amiata.com

Capovelli Farmhouse is located just 20 minutes in chestnuts forest from the ancient middleage town of Arcidosso.
Leading from the living room is a spacious balcony with stunning views, furnished with a table and chairs to enable you to dine al fresco. With one double and one twin bedroom, the villa is ideal for families, with plenty in the surrounding area to see and do during your stay.

Do are invited to partecipate to harvest of wine or olive oil is a facilities like the chestnuts also.
More wild animals visit our farm during the night and in the first evening.

We organize a free taste course on estravirgin olive oli (our product) and on botanic treatment of a chestnut (our product). And also are avalaible lessons of history of this volcan (Monte Amiata) from geological to historical point of view.

All the possibles informations on Siena, Pienza (the true renaissance town of Pope Pio II the Piccolomini) and so on again...

Prices Bed and Breakfast

Minimum price p/d (person a day): € 35,00
Maximum price p/d (person a day): € 40,00
Minimum price p/w (person a week): € 210,00
Maximum price p/w (person a week): € 250,00
Si pernotta in camera a 2 letti con bagno, incluso cambio biancheria e asciugamani. La colazione è compresa nel prezzo. Se si vuole si può pranzare o cenare.

Around the accomodation

Azienda Agricola Capovelli

Our "motto" is two word: Hospes ave and for our guests we would suggest:

a romantic trip from our farmhouse to (always):...... the Wine and Flavour Trail of the Maremma Hills (La Strada del Vino e dei Sapori Colli di Maremma).This route embodies the heart and soul of Maremma itself. Made up of thirteen boroughs of the Province of Grosseto, it is not only one of the major Trails in Italy but also the one that offers the greatest choice and potential from the sea to the hills and to the slopes of Mount Amiata. It is a land is full of history, tradition and local colour; a ray of real, true authenticity;

or (inJuly and August) an unique experience of Palio di Siena (not far from our house). The magic of a tradition hundreds of years old in which the residents live for this moment, having conserved the same rites and atmosphere since the middle ages.  Arrive at your arranged accommodation facility and live with us during these fascinating days, seeing through the eyes of true ‘contradaioli’ who will explain the secret hidden traditions that are behind ancient rituals and rites of control.
The contradas combat for supremacy with the same regulations of an ancient unwritten cavalier code embedded in the DNA of the city.  Her enchanted atmosphere will no doubt transport you as if by magic into ancient history.
and .... the same tradition is in Castel del Piano in September month (palio delle contrade see picture);

or a visit to garden of Artist Daniel Spoerri In Seggiano (just 2,5 km from the farmhouse). This artist started to establish a sculpture garden in the in Monte Amiata 80 km south from Siena: “Il Giardino di Daniel Spoerri”. It has been opened for the public in 1997 and can hence be visited from Easter until October. By now there are 87 installations by 42 artists in an area of about 16 ha.

And again cultural and spiritual actitivity by Merigar Buddist Community in Arcidosso Monte Amiata

Seminars by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, which are held periodically, other courses are held throught out the year on various aspects of the Dzogchen teachings such as Yantra Yoga and the Vajra Dance.
Other activities are organised by the Shang Shung Institute: courses on Tibetan Medicine and massage,
Tibetan language and painting.

Yantra Yoga, or the Yoga of movement, is a Yoga of the Tibetan tradition passed down orally until the instructions were edited into a text by Vairocana, the great 8th century teacher.
The practice of Yantra Yoga rebalances physical energy and helps to relax the body, voice and mind, by means of physical exercises, breathing techniques and mental concentration.

Vajra Dance was taught by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu in the early 1990s. The main aim is to allow practitioners to integrate movement with contemplation. It is meditation in movement, which leads to a deep relaxation and helps to harmonise one's physical and mental energy.
The Vajra Dance is practised on a mandala, which represents symbolically both the individual and also the dimension in which we live, the universe.