Best Tuscany Farmhouse Stays: Top Recommendations
Browse more guides: Italy travel | Europe destinations Best Tuscany Farmhouse Stays: Top Recommendations The Tuscan agriturismo (working-farm-stay) experience is one of the most distinctive forms of European travel, and the gap between the right one and the wrong one is large. Get it right and you spend a week in a 14th-century stone farmhouse with a vineyard view, evening dinners cooked by the owner's mother, and four medieval hill towns within a 25-minute drive. Get it wrong and you spend a week in a converted-shed-on-an-arterial-road that calls itself an agriturismo and has nothing of the experience that the Tuscan farmhouse promise implies. After years of farmhouse stays across all of Tuscany's main regions, I have a clear ranked list of the farmhouse zones I would actually recommend, the specific properties I keep returning to, and the months that make each region work. EUR pricing is for two adults for three nights including breakfast in shoulder season (mid-April th...