Terricciola, night of wine and stars!

August 10th 2009,  San Lorenzo night, the night with more falling stars, and the night of wishes. In Terricciola, one of the most amazing cities wine tours in Tuscany, you can celebrate the night, watch chasing falling stars and ask your dreams to come true with jazz live music in the background and a good glass of local wine and food, and celebrate!!!

Maybe the wish is to get married soon, or to return to Tuscany to get married in this fabulous region. This is a night you cannot miss, and if you are far.. make a wish as well, the wish to come and visit Tuscany and taste its marvellous wines and food and maybe get married here, or renew your promises under the sun … or the stars of a Tuscan night.

On August 10th from 8 pm in Terricciola’s old town a suggestive evening across the village, tasting wines and food of Pisa area.

Dinner

Great Bear Constellation (this year weather should be perfect and the sky clean. check it here). Dinner under the stars under the starry night of Terricciola, tasing wine and eating specialties Tuscan food in the big square (piazza Matteotti)

Reservation is required for the dinner calling +39 0587 656540 from 8 am to 1 pm or anytime +393466300791

There are tasting stands all around the ton streets, where you can try local Spumante (Italian champagne). There are several themes under each stand:

CASSIOPEA: tasting of street food and “cru” wines in the church square

ORION: Tasting of Tuscan cold cuts and Pisa’s red wine

ANDROMEDA: Tasting of Tuscan Cheese and Pisa’s white wines

DRAGON: Tasting of typical sweets, cakes and ice-cream and Vin Santo (typical sweet wine)

SWAN: Tasting of spirits combined with chocolate delight

The night will be surrounded by live Jazz Music and archaeological routs by Tectiana the Archaeological Group of Valdera and Colline Pisane. Archaeological routs include guided visits to the Etruscan Hypogeum of Belvedere, the funerary urn of Parsonage of st. Donato (II  century B.C.), the painting of Madonna di Monterosso (1409)

Visits start at 9.30 pm and can be booked in English, French and German.

Info and reservations at

+39 349 6820119
or
+39 333 9761176

“Pre-historic hunters who lived in the Uccellina caves liked it and the Etruscans and Romans liked it enough to turn it into a major sea-port and build imposing villas with swimming pools.  Medieval Lords liked it too as did the Siennese who fortified the town and the Spanish who further strengthened its defences.”

It has lost nothing of its appeal today; people remain enchanted by its  untamed rocky shoreline and the endless blue of the sea not to mention the  the green of its fields and Mediterranean brush  and the fierceness of  the warm  prevailing wind.”

Talamone:

Talamone is a town in the Tuscan Maremma, it easily reached from Via Aurelia, and is about 25 km from Grosseto and 10 from Orbetello.

The village lies on a rocky promontory, which lies on the southern border of the Maremma nature reserve, in a dominant position along the whole stretch of coast arriving at Mount Argentario.

Among the monuments of interest is the fortress which stands out from the promontory, overlooking the entire village and along the coastal stretch.

The local beach of Talamone has become a very popular area to practice the sport of Kitesurfing.You can also visit the Lagoon Aquarium, which consists of ten tanks. In 2008 it was one of the sets used for the movie 007 – Quantum of Solace.

This is could be the perfect and romantic place for your unforgettable wedding. The sea, the nature reserve and the beautiful location make your dream comes true !

Churches:

* Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta

* Chiesa della Madonna delle Grazie

* Vivarelli Mausoleum (Chapel of the cemetery)

Distances:

By Train:
2 hours from Fiumicino (Rome) airpot ;
3:30 hours from Florence airport;
2:30 hours from Pisa airport (Train leaving from inside the airport itself).

By Car:

2 hours from Rome;
3 hours from Florence;
2:10 hours from Pisa airport.

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Capalbio is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Grosseto – Southern coast of Tuscany. Capalbio is  located about 150 km south-west of Florence, 210 km south of Pisa and about 45 km southeast of Grosseto.

History

The name derives probably from the Latin Caput Album or Campus Albus (White Cape or Field, respectively), due to the white alabaster stone dug in the area.

Capalbio is known for the first time in 805 AD, when it was donated to the Abbey of the Tre Fontane, near Rome, by Charlemagne. The possession was confirmed in 1161 by Pope Alexander III. Later it was under the Aldobrandeschi family, who were followed by Orvieto, the Republic of Siena and the Orsini, who built the Castle.

Conquered by the Spaniards in 1555. it was assigned to Cosimo I de’ Medici as part of his new Grand Duchy of Tuscany. The city subsequently decayed and the area depopulated due to the presence of malaria.

It became part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1860, becoming an independent comune in 1960. Capalbio is also the place where Buffalo Bill suffered his first defeat.

The town is completely enclosed within a double set of Senese walls, along which extensive stretches of the suggestive patrol bays can still be walked. Capalbio has a medieval town plan, with narrow, curved streets climbing to the top of the hill dominated by the Rocca Aldobrandesca. The double-bay Porta Senese, which is crowned by a tower, is the gateway to the historic centre.

A marbie inscription on the gate commemorates the 1416 restoration of the walls by the Sienese. The road continues past the so-called Arco Santo (Holy Arch), capped by a marble bust of the Emperor Hadrian, and climbs to the Church of St. Nicholas, perhaps dating to the 12th century, standing at the foot of the rocca. The simple facade has an ogival portal topped by an inscription commemorating the enlargement and restoration of the church in 1466.

The interior is a single-bay structure with a rectangular apse and side chapels. The Romanesque capitals with animal and plant motifs and several frescoes of the 15th and 16th century Umbrian school are quite interesting.

Over the centuries Capalbio’s Rocca has undergone continuous modifications which have gradually transformed it into a patrician residence.  A square tower with an inclined base rises directly in front of the Church of St. Nicholas. The Collacchioni Palace, built over the old structures of the castle in the early decades of this century, leans against the tower’s north side.

In the palace several rooms complete with their original furnishings can be visited. Among these is the so called Sala Puccini, which preserves an Austrian piano from 1823 which the famous composer himself played. Outside the walls is the small Oratory of Providence.

Getting married in the magic castle of Capalbio is a unique experience which you will cherish for your lifetime

Source : www.wikipedia.com

Distances:

By Train: 2 hours from Fiumicino (Rome) airpot , 3.30 hours from Florence airport, 3 hours from Pisa Airport (train station inside the airport itself).

By Car: 2 hours from Rome , 3 hours from Florence, 2 hours from Pisa.

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Wedding in Orbetello is a dream that comes true! This is the perfect scenography for your special day!

Orbetello:

Orbetello is a town and commune in the province of Grosseto (Tuscany), Italy. It is located c. 35 km south of Grosseto, on the eponymous lagoon, which is home to an important Natural Reserve.

History:

Orbetello was an ancient Etruscan settlement, which in 280 BC passed under the control of the Romans, who had founded their colony of Cosa (near the modern Ansedonia).

In the Middle Ages it was a possession of the Aldobrandeschi family, who held it until the 14th century, when it was acquired by the city of Orvieto. After several struggles with the Orsini of Pitigliano and Orvieto, in the following centuries Orbetello was captured by the Sienese Republic. In the mid-16th century it was part of the Spanish puppet State of Presides, becoming its capital. Later it was under the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and, from the late 19th century, the newly unified Kingdom of Italy.

In 1927-1933, Italo Balbo’s “air cruises” started from Orbetello’s lagoon.

Main sights:

• The city walls (5th century BC).

• Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, built over an Etruscan-Roman temple and restructured in 1375 along Tuscan-Gothic lines. Preceded by a step, it houses some notable 15th century frescoes.

• The Spanish Forte delle Saline, in the frazione of Albinia.

• Remains of the Roman city of Cosa in the frazione of Ansedonia.

• Ruins of the Monastery of Sant’Angelo.

Source : www.wikipedia.com

Distances:

By Train: 2 hours from Fiumicino (Rome) airport , 3.30 hours from Florence airport, 2:30 hours from Pisa Airport (Train leaving from inside the airport itself).

By Car: 2 hours from Rome , 3 hours from Florence, 2 hours from Pisa.

The Cathedral of Orbetello :

The Cathedral is placed in Piazza della Repubblica (Square of the Republic), in the very heart of the urban centre surrounded by the ancient Etruscan walls that are still visible.

The Cathedral, that is the ancient Church entitled to Saint Mary’s Assumption, was built on a pre-existing building at the end of XIV century.

It was restored during the Spanish domination.

From the ancient building it is still possible to admire the Gothic, travertine-made, facade showing a fine portal where is portrayed the ensign of Orbetello and a rose-window surmounted by a hole hosting the chest of the Blessing God.

The interior of the Cathedral is on three aisles divided by pillars.

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