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 get a table. Not so a...

We arrived this spring on April 7th after visiting Matera, an ancient town in southern Italy that was just named one of the Cultural Capitals of Europe for 2...

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

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 inexpensive vehicle f...

Another fall means another olive oil harvest. Matteo Turchi our fantastic groundskeeper did a fabulous job with this year's olive crop. We have just under 1...

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 8am and were under s...

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 new website we were ...

Last October we had our first olive harvest as the new owners of Villa Palazzetta. The harvest took place in late October. We harvested more than 2500 kilos...