Piè di CostaPiè di Costa holiday home and self catering apartments in Tuscany

The summer season is not officially over, and the heat of the sun of these last days of September still let our guests to spend afternoons in the garden, pool or enjoy a walk to Florence, Siena, San Gimignano or Volterra. But like every year our guests have already requested information for a vacation to Tuscany for Christmas and New Year’s Eve. So, we decided it was the time to present the new offers of Piè di Costa.
If spending a vacation in Piè di Costa during summertime is the ideal way to rest and relax, bathing in the pool or maybe enjoy an outdoor barbecue, winter in Tuscany is full of opportunities too.
Autumn is the time in which nature is going to be transformed and the countryside turns to warmer tones, it is the time when even a bike ride on trails and paths around Montaione will be a real surprise.
But there is much more. Spending an holiday in Piè di Costa between November and January 2009 you can participate in one of the many events that will take place in Montaione in winter and in the period between Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
Not only that, who wants to see Siena without the chaos of summer days, or the centre of Florence illuminated by the lights of Christmas, will have to choose this time for even a short vacation. Autumn and winter are also ideal for tasting the specialities of Tuscan cooking, the new wine and oil, truffle but also a good Florentine steak.
However summer or winter, spring or fall, any time of the year Piè di Costa is the ideal place to spend your next holiday in Tuscany.

Piè di Costa starts 2009 with a lot of news to its guests, presenting a new offer dedicated to the well-being, not only to tone the body but also the soul.
If you are going to spend a holiday in Tuscany in Montaione between 28 February and 25 April 2009 and 10-31 October 2009, by booking one of our apartments you will receive a voucher for a relaxing massage and sauna at the wellness center of Gambassi Terme.

An holiday in spring or autumn is ideal for exploring Tuscany.
Prices are cheaper, the cities of art are less crowded and the temperature is suitable for walking in the countryside on foot or by mountain bike.
After so much activity, what’s better than a relaxing sauna and a relaxing massage to keep fit and restart the day after to discover Tuscany?

Let yourself be tempted by this new offer and book now your vacation!

After the harvest, at Piè di Costa is the time to begin harvesting olives. November is the time when the olives reach perfect ripeness. The olives are harvested by hand or using a special tool and made to fall on a net lying at the foot of the olive tree. Here are grouped together, separate from the leaves and put into boxes, ready to be transported to the mill for the production of the Extra Vergine oil of olive. In Piè di Costa estate there are about 400 olive trees of different varieties like the “frantoio”, “Moraiolo “, and” Leccino” that are typical kinds of olives groves in Tuscany. For that reason the the Extra Vergine oil of olive of Piè di Costa is a mixture of olives of different quality that ensures a unique and unmistakable flavour as well as a deep green colour. Here follow you can see the video with some moments of collecting olives.

It’s harvest time in Tuscany and also in Piè Costa is now time to harvest the grapes in the three hectares of Chianti vineyards in oue estate. The following video, shows some moments of the harvest:

September is arrived and like every year figs and grapes are ready to be collected. The nature and its cycles is punctual and surprising: gives the fruits of his land with generosity and love. First fruits of autumn like figs are a joy to see but above all to eat. Accompanied with the salami is one of the best dishes of traditional Tuscan cuisine. But they are also good with pecorino cheese and ham, or even by themselves after a meal. Staying in one of Piè di Costa apartments during fall season you can organize a dinner in the garden or on a terrace of your apartment, with figs and salami. September is the month of the harvest. Our Chianti vineyards arriving until a few meters from home give a good table grapes. Choosing September for a holiday in Tuscany in Piè di Costa you can enjoy these unique products of our land.

Autumn with its shorter days and warm colours, is not only the end of the summer, but represent as well, the start of a new season.
In autumn, when nature offers lots of fruits, trees loose their leafs and cover the roads with warm colours and the fresh evenings, are the right moments for romantic dinners to let hearts fall in love again.
All sensations, emotions and flavours that autumn offer us could be experienced by living in this beautiful place: Tuscany and Montaione. The new season can be celebrated with an holiday in Tuscany and will remain for ever into your mind even for a short break.
Here in Piè di Costa, we have decided to celebrate the autumn and winter season until Christmas and new year’s Eve offering you some promotion to let you taste the flavour of this season.

After the grape’s harvest, it’s the time to harvest the Olives. At Piè di Costa, where there are approximately 500 olive trees, has beed harvested 4000 kg of Olives. Andrea and his staff are working hard to make an excellent Extra Virgin Oil of Olive.

At the end of October with the first cold weather of the season, when the trees start to strip a of its leaves, it feel us that Christmas is coming. This period represent more or less officially the end of the summer season.
A season in which Piè di Costa has consolidate its success thanks to a better presence on the web and confirmed by lots of visitors and guests from many European and overseas country.
For that reason Filippo and the Staff of Piè di Costa want personally thanks all the guests like Claudia, Gerard, Frank, Eric, Stephanie, John, Patrik, Manfred and Haike, Christin, Caroline, Isabel, Patricia and many other that with their kindness, their smiles, and their wish to spend an unforgettable holiday will always kept in our mind.
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to make your holidays our profession making us proud to be here unflagging at your service.

PS. I was forgetting… Today is my birthday, you couldn’t make me a better present!

Like every year, in the period between September and October, in Piè di Costa is usual to harvest. Piè di Costa is an estate of 12 hectares cultivated with Chianti vineyards and olive groves.
This year, a sunny climate and high temperature, - in particular during the months of June, July and August - has advantaged the growing of grapes with an excellent level of sugar (from which depends alcoholic degrees) in addiction to a general high quality.
This period, is one of the most important in the coutrylife, and represent for our guests, an unique opportunity to experience the production of Chianti wine. As said from some of our guests, they have enjoyed to help Andrea and his staff in grape-picking.

Autumn is arrived, with its flavours, its deep and warm colours, that make a relaxing and magic atmosphere, ideal for a short break in the Tuscan countryside.
This is the time of the harvest of grapes and olives, truffles and chestnuts. There are lots of festivals and outdoor markets, like the one in Montaione, the last weekend of October, called Mostra della Castagna e del Tartufo, where it will be possible to taste in addition of the white truffle and chestnuts of Montaione, other typical products like wine, oil of olive and the famous bread of Montaione.
In Piè di Costa, on time as always, we have prepared some special offers for that period of the year. Whether for a short break or a weekly stay in Tuscany, come to visit us, we will be pleased to offer you our personal welcome into this magic and cool autumn atmosphere.