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Feb 14
2 min

Look Who Recently Came To (And Made) Dinner At Our Beautiful Villa.

Giada de Laurentiis, Bobby Flay and a big film crew spent a week filming an episode for their new series in September of 2019 (before...

Mar 11, 2020
2 min

And Recently Voted One of the Ten Best Restaurants in Tuscany? Our neighbors at Locanda Demetra.

Our friends and neighbors at Locanda Demetra started their farm-to-table restaurant a few years back. It used to be easy to show up and...

Apr 8, 2019
1 min

Welcome Home!

We arrived this spring on April 7th after visiting Matera, an ancient town in southern Italy that was just named one of the Cultural...

Apr 1, 2019
2 min

A Note From Our First Official Guests

In March our first official guests visited Villa Palazzetta. The note they left in our guestbook says it all. But Maryellen, one of the...

Nov 14, 2018
1 min

Our Ape Calessino

If you been to an Italian hill town then you've seen Piaggios. After WWII Piaggio invented this small engine, three wheel vehicle as an...

Oct 26, 2018
1 min

Olive Oil - Start to Finish

Another fall means another olive oil harvest. Matteo Turchi our fantastic groundskeeper did a fabulous job with this year's olive crop....

Oct 18, 2018
1 min

To Elba Under Sail

In October several of took a lovely day trip on a 45 foot sailboat from Portiglioni to Elba. It was a perfect day. We left Montalcino at...

Sep 16, 2018
3 min

Palio, August 2018 - Lupa wins! (And we were there.)

When Lee and I went to Montalcino this last August, we had a job to do. We had to photograph our newly finished Villa Palazzetta for the...

Feb 6, 2018
1 min

Our First Olive Harvest

Last October we had our first olive harvest as the new owners of Villa Palazzetta. The harvest took place in late October. We harvested...

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