Villa Highlights

Okay, so several of you wrote me requesting photos of the Villa Buonvisi. I would recommend this place to anyone but you must be willing to rent a car to get to it because there are no buses. A taxi from Lucca, the nearest town, would run you about 30-Euros and expect the driver to get lost. It took us a few times to figure out the directions. Three of the couples had iPads with the Global Positioning System (GPS). It worked incredibly well. One couple used a European plan from Vodaphone, where you buy a plan with a certain amount of minutes and get WiFi and GPS. There is free WiFi at the villa.

To book one of the five villas on the Fattoria Mansi Bernardini property contact them at info@fattoriamansibernardini.it; website: www.fattoriamansibernardini.it

From their website: "We have five holiday houses (inside the farm) for rent, surrounded by the wonderful green of hills of Lucca. Each houses is provided with its own swimming pool, satellite TV, CD stereo, video recorder and a daily cleaning/laundry service, as well as garden and swimming pool maintenance. There is also a shared tennis court among ancient olive trees. Guests can also enjoy the holidays estate’s products (olive oil), and the opportunity to visit the Luxury holiday estate "Fattoria Mansi Bernardini". Farm guest's can provide to visit farm, Lucca walls, Lucca countryside and the green hills near the luxury farm." 

In the Villa Buonvisi there are seven bedrooms of various sizes. So we had 14 people to share the rental cost. Each of the bedrooms has its own individual Tuscan country style.

[Photos copyright by M. J. Milne 2011]