Farm experiences

Fattoria del Colle – the cat pound

Life on a farm

Everybody knows of kennels, but at Fattoria del Colle we have a cat pound.

Fattoria - the black cat

It’s in front of the historic cellar, inside going towards the courtyard. There are some very old large oil pitchers in terracotta and above them are three cat homes, and dishes with their special cat food..

At Fattoria  del Colle there are three black cats and one white, she is very ferocious, a real panther who scratches even the dogs who pass by.

The Grand Duke's Bedroom

This story is about the most beautiful and romantic rooms at Fattoria del Colle, the “Camera del Granduca”. Pietro Leopoldo d’Asburgo Lorena was the greatest Tuscan sovereign.

Fattoria del Colle "Camera del Granduca"

By Donatella

With the end of the Medici family, he became Grand Duke when very young and he moved to Florence. During the next 25 years he transformed Tuscany into an efficient state, that was rich, with no illiteracy, with a health system, where women had the right to vote and where the death penalty was abolished (1786), this was the first state in the world to do so.
Regardless though of his many good points Pietro Leopoldo had one defect. He was a great womanizer. It seems, that his wife Maria Ludovica di Borbone, daughter of the King of Spain, while travelling across Florence in their horse and cart would say to her 16 children  <<wave , wave to those children……..they might be your brothers and sisters >>.

Fattoria del Colle – Christmas Party for exchanging best wishes

This is the party for Christmas 2011 organized by Donatella Cinelli Colombini

Fattoria del Colle Christmas party

for her employees. The winter festivities are the conclusion of a very intense working year. It is the moment for final balances, which, regardless of the crisis, are one whole positive.

The winery has increate its sales by  5,4% with a strong increase in what is exported, this has compensated the reduction of sales in Italy. The country inn has maintained last year’s levels while the restaurant has had a big contraction because fewer wedding banquets have been organized here. Very good for the shop Toscana Lovers in Siena with a double figure increase.

In your Christmas deportations are you a traditionalist or are you a nonconformist?

In Italy December the 8th, day where the immaculate conception of Mary is celebrated is traditionally identified as the day for putting up the Christmas tree, laying out the nativity scene and hanging up the decorations. And traditionally all is removed after the Epiphany,(or on the actual day). Around here the saying goes “L’Epifania, tutte le feste se le porta via” “Epiphany , calls all the holidays away”

What ovens have we at Colle

At Fattoria del Colle there are 4 ancient bread oven and two modern ones. The historic ones are enormous and very beautiful to look at , they are used only for monumental roasts....

The garden of the old olive mill at Fattoria del Colle

Donatella Cinelli Colombini tells of how she has transformed the park in the centre of Fattoria del Colle using the left overs of the old olive mill as sculptures...

Guardia, an apartment with a view

In the Fattoria del Colle country inn the most panoramic apartment is "Guardia". Once this was where the gamekeeper lived, it was built in the Eighteenth century...

The cypress trees at Fattoria del Colle

At Fattoria del Colle, the cutting of two cypress trees killed by the “cancer” which has permittted us to discover their age:130 years...

For her cookery school Helle Poulsen Tesio has create a new tasty and healthy cake

Helle Poulsen Tesio presents her new healthy orange cake for the cookery school at Fattoria del Colle in Trequanda...

The warm colours of Autumn

Come and enjoy walking the trails of the Val d'Orcia, the Crete Senesi, and the countryside surrounding the farmhouse Fattoria del Colle among the warm colours of nature during Autumn...

Tuscan original handicraft at Toscana Lovers in Siena

        [caption id="attachment_3177" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="A table dressed with handmade tuscan tissues and dishes"][/caption]     In the medieval heart of Siena "Toscana lovers" offers the best from Tuscan craftsmen,  traditional and trendy items, all exclusive and individually designed and produced     ‘ Toscana lovers’ is situated just a few metres from the Piazza del Campo in the Noble Contrada of the Oca; it is not far away from the house where St Catherine was born in 1347. We are obviously in the medieval heart of Siena where the three oldest parts of the city intersect. The building which currently houses the shop was originally a convent,...

Fattoria del Colle, a farm that sings

The Norwegian choir Fermate Vokal at the Fattoria del Colle. Beautiful singers and also wine lovers, the singers performed in Arezzo and Trequanda and rehearsed in the chapel of St. Clement at the farm...