Transfer and Other Options:

Sample Itinerary:

Saturday: Arrival and check into the inn. Four course dinner and overnight.

Sunday: Ride to the small medieval village of Poggioterro, through woods and meadows on the North-East side of Scansano. Stop for a rest for both riders and horses, then back to the hotel.

Monday:   The cooking program provides 3 lessons (3 hrs) Monday-Wednesday-Friday - no riding on those days. 
The first day in the kitchen will be dedicated to Italy's pièce de résistance: homemade pasta - tagliatelle, tagliolini, gnocchi, tortelli with a seasonal filling, brigoli and pappardelle. You will prepare these dishes with your own hands under the supervision of an expert, and taste them after the lesson with the right wine: red Morellino di Scansano, white Aione from Macereto, etc.

Tuesday: Breakfast and departure for another beautiful excursion into the Maremma countryside. We ride along old car-roads, going down hill slopes and across torrents where we can see the typical plantation of this area and if we are lucky, meet a wild boar or a fallow-deer searching for food. We then stop for a rest before returning to the hotel.

Wednesday: The cooking course will continue with wonderful country soups, flavored with simple local olive oil. You may prepare mushroom, Mediterranean vegetable, chick pea or bean soups as well as tasty traditional acqua cotta. And the Casale kitchen will reveal the secret of its own Zuppa del Casale. And then sauces - wild boar, spring vegetable, ragù to enhance the different types of pasta. The starters are always fun to prepare, like Tuscan crostini, or simple bruschetta with olive oil, tomatoes, etc.

Thursday: In the morning ride to "Il Marcereto" farm where we produce red (Morelino di Scansano) and white wine, grappa and olive oil. From the horse stables we go along the old road of "Il Salalolo" to reach an old salt mine and then go on hill-slopes, through vineyards and olive groves and up across an old torrent. Stop in the farm to visit the cellar and taste our products.

Friday:  To crown it all, on the last day of the cooking course, you will learn how to make traditional desserts like panna cotta with wild berries, tozzetti to serve with vin santo and other little delights, whose secrets will be revealed to you in due course.
On Friday, at lunch time, participants will usually be treated to a special wine tasting session with local white and red wines (most of them out of our own production) 

Saturday: after breakfast … good-bye to everybody.

During the week you will have one  25 minute Anti-stress massage. This slow and gentle massage relaxes together body and mind, helping you let yourself go and experiment total escape from stress.

Optional 3 Spa Treatments :

Body Scrub   20 minutes
Thanks to marine thermal salt it makes your skin smooth, fresh and ready for further treatments.

Honey Cloud Treatment    25 minutes
A chestnut honey compress with deep nutritional effects for your skin and also beneficial for the circulation.

Morellino Furò-Bath     20 minutes
Using the toxin reducing grapes and the relaxing sensation of Morellino wine.

The wellness area provides an indoor swimming pool, hydrotherapy bath with Dead Sea salts, whirlpool bath and the “Paradise of the Senses”, a place entirely dedicated to health, with relaxing music and pleasant perfumes. In the “Paradise of the Senses” through bioclimatology and the right quantity of heat, at different temperatures and in distinct rooms, you can get surprising health benefits and a general state of well-being and relaxation. Moreover, the Spa provides a sauna area including calidarium, tepidarium, laconicum and frigidarium.

In spring around 20º to 25º Celsius, during summer and fall around 25º to 30º C. Central Italy has kind of ocean climate with mild winters and not too hot of a summer.

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Immersed in this fairy countryside and close to the ancient town of Scansano, a characteristic village on top of a hill in the Alta Maremma in Tuscany, full of history and with, you will be the welcomed guests of the 4 stars hotel resort di Scansano: an old traditions ancient residence in Tuscany, a structure created after the restoration of a characteristic country farm in Tuscany. A fantastic place, immersed in nature, where you can reconcile enviable comfort with an exciting stay in a farmhouse in Tuscany.

The regular package includes a standard room with private bath.

Standard double rooms:

-- placed in the main part of the Hotel and in 2 annexes, they have been recently restored. All rooms have antique furniture and wrought iron beds, to make you live once again the atmosphere of the old country houses in Tuscany.
Each room has a private bathroom and all comforts. They have a striking view over the medieval village of Scansano or over the garden of the Hotel Resort. 

Double rooms with balcony:

-- placed at the first floor of the new stone construction, built keeping the style of the old farmhouse, they are ample, bright, with a private entrance from the terrace, which has a romantic, relaxing corner with table and chairs.
All rooms have antique furniture and wrought iron beds. Each room has a private bathroom and all comforts. They offer a striking view over the green valleys of Maremma.
Superior double rooms with balcony:
-- placed at the second floor of the new stone construction, built keeping the style of the old farmhouse, they are ample and bright, and have a main entrance and a French door from which you can enter the private terrace with a romantic, relaxing corner with table and chairs.
Quiet and comfortable, they have antique furniture and wrought iron beds. Each room has a private bathroom and all comforts. They offer an unforgettable panorama.

Suites:

-- placed at the first floor of the new stone construction, built keeping the style of the characteristic Tuscan Farmhouse, they have two rooms, a large double room with window, an elegant living room with fireplace and French door from which you can enter the private terrace with table and chairs. The private bathroom is provided with a whirlpool bath and all comforts. On request, you can use the kitchenette. They have antique furniture and wrought iron beds, and offer a romantic view over the valley below the Hotel.

Pool:

-- for people wishing relax after a horse - riding, for people loving spending the day in complete relax, we have at your disposal a swimming pool (15 x 7,50 metres) with a big equipped garden, thought for guests wishing a holiday in a country Resort with every comfort, where silence can be stopped only by a horse nitrite or by wind rustling.

Wellness Spa facilities:

-- the luxury Beauty Farm Spa Resort is a welcoming space, where the light and relaxing tones of the wooden furniture create a well-being oasis, based on the Oriental ideal of harmony between body and mind as a source of health and beauty. The wellness centre is a corner of paradise where you can find peace and relief from the daily stress of the modern cities. The whole centre is dedicated to total care of your body and soul and you will leave it perfectly restored, in good trim after a charming and comfortable farm holiday in the heart of Tuscany.
The wellness area provides indoor swimming pool, hydrotherapy bath with Dead Sea salts, whirlpool bath and the “Paradise of the Senses”, a place entirely dedicated to health, with relaxing music and pleasant perfumes. In the “Paradise of the Senses” through bioclimatology and the right quantity of heat, at different temperatures and in distinct rooms, you can get surprising health benefits and a general state of well-being and relaxation. Moreover, the Spa provides a sauna area including calidarium, tepidarium, laconicum and frigidarium.

This trip includes and can accommodate special dietary requests.

Tack:		English, Western
Horses:		Maremma
Pace:		Slow with some trots and canters, 3-4 hours per day
Level:		(2.5 to 3 out of 5)    Good Novice+
Weight:		Max 220 lbs
Riders:		Min 1 riders	Max 10 riders (per riding group)	Max Capacity 50

Riding helmets and protection for shoulder (obligatory) are available for clients at the center.