Agriturismo Podere Santa Maria

Description:
Pienza and Monticchiello in the Natural Artistic and Cultural Park of Val d'Orcia, recently part of UNESCO, world heritage of Humanity. We restored our house bit by bit and we have given the farm a special quality by producing cereal (with the certification Agriqualità) oil, pasta, saffron and jams.
The work we carry out, both from an agricoltural and receptive point of veiw is done personally and we try to keep local traditions alive. Our guests can stay in an apartment (La Loggia) made up of a double bedroom, a bathroom, a living room with fireplace and a kitchen corner; or with two double bedrooms: La Vigna and L’Olivo, both with private entrances but with a common living area.
The house is surrounded by a large garden with a ping-pong table, football area, basket-ball net and a swimming pool for young children.
You may also use our mountan-bikes to tour around the beautiful countryside of Valdorcia and go for walks or take part in cultural events in the environs, like in Pienza, Montepulciano, Montalcino, San Quirico or even go to the spa in Bagno Vignoni and San Filippo. We also breed farm animals. On the ground floor, right next to our accomodation section you can find our kitchen where we would be delighted to organize special lunches or dinners for you, all prepared with our home-grown products.We offer towels and sheets, wood for the fireplace and a hair-drier for every bathroom. Also, there is satellite TV and a fridge in every room. All rooms avail of air-conditioning and heaters. For those staying for periods over one week the change of bed linen is included in the price. During your stay you may pick and eat our home grown vegetables. It is possible to reserve bed and break-fast or half-board.

Services:
Dinner on booking with products of our farm like pici, Ribollita, Noodles, Pappardelle, Spelt soup, Saffron dishes and roast meat. The dinner is served in our big kitchen with other guests and our family, tasting of our products (oil, saffron, pasta and jams), products of our kitchen garden available for guests, weekly change of linen, air-drier, Air conditioned appartament and TV, Rooms with fridge and TV, Possibility to use fire-place, possibility to give hospitality to little animals, Renting of bikes, Turist informations, Spacious garden with swing, ping-pong and basket, Trekking, Thermal baths in Bagno Vignoni.

Here you are our products:
Our jams are made by cooking fruit we produce in our farm. We make a choice of the better fruit which is cut into pieces and cooked. Then the mixture is dried into oven for 24h. You can choose among apricots, tigs, quinces and plums in a 200 g pot. The different kinds of pasta we package are obtained by milling our hard corn in a stone-mill.
- The pasta is then trasformed into different types like pici, pappardelle, tagliatelle, gozzini, grandinina and penne (300 g or 500 g), by an authorizated "pasta" factory. The intense flavour and the dark colour of the pasta are produced by stone milling and make our pasta very savoury.
In the last years saffron has become a highly-valude spice, especially for cooking. The saffron flowers are picked in october and their pistils are dried. The drying requires some hours. Saffron takes a long time to grow and has to be picked by saffron has a very intense flavour, and is used for cooking different types of dishes and sweets. Our saffron is available in a 0,10 g or 0,25 g packs.
- Our olive oil is obtained from hand-harvested olives and taken to the oil-mill within 48 hours. We cultivate four different varieties of olive-trees: leccino, oriolo, frantoio and olivastra. The oil mill where we mill olives has a continuous cycle and a temperature not higher than 27° c. Our oil is available in cruets (0,250 l), bottles (0,750 l) and cans (3 l or 5 l).


Address: Podere Santa Maria, 53026 Monticchiello di Pienza
Phone: +39 0578 755080
Fax: +39 0578 755080
Cell: +39 335 8396942

E-mail: info@santamariapienza.it
Website: www.santamariapienza.it
Manager: Virno Mangiavacchi