The Estate’s headquarters in Vico d’Elsa
Access is from the town, through an eighteenth-century décor of stairways, frescoes and stuccoes leading to the main drawing room and bedrooms. A smaller room takes us to the heart of the house, a tiny chapel covered in frescoes. It is the work of the excellent seventeenth-century painter, Giovanni da san Giovanni, and is dedicated to the Madonna and the episodes in her life, portrayed in six main frescoes and a number of other, smaller ones. The west wing of the house gives onto a 'hortus conclusus' — a walled garden within Vico — and the main threshing floor facing San Gimignano. The threshing floor takes us to the Estate's headquarters - offices, workshop and tasting room - on the ground floor of the building facing the fields. This part of the house consists of rooms used for the farm: cellars in brickwork or carved out of the tufa, mediaeval granaries, storerooms and production areas, such as the old olive mill which still houses the oil room (la coppaia) next to the tasting room. Again on the ground floor is the apartment with garden (4 beds) which we let to tourists.
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