The farmhouse has common rooms on the ground floor where you may choose to rest and read to play snooker on an antique billiards table bake bread in the wood-fired oven or grill dinner to enjoy outside and two independent apartments are on the first and second floor The ancient farmhouse recently restored is set in 85 private hectares of the Tuscan Apennines near the attractive town of Marradi There is a swimming pool with breath-taking panoramic views on the sorrounding valley from the 700 mt altitude a shaded loggia area and tended lawns The surrounding woodlands are rich in flora and faunaThe farmhouse is 4 km from the nearest town where there is a supermarket and 6 km from Marradi which offers a large variety of shops and services Marradi hasa railway station and frequent trains into Florence s city centre -1h15mins- and other notable Tuscan towns Also to Faenza -home of faence pottery and just 30 km away- and on to RavennaIf you d like to spend some time at the seaside as the Adriatic Coast with its beaches -including Rimini and Riccione- is less than an hour s ride away The road to the villa has some curves and from the main street there are 4 km of steep unpaved road