This 140 sqm country house was built at the beginning of the 20^th century. It has a 30sqm porch and a 180sqm terrace surrounded by one hectare park where there is a garden with a collection of hydrangeas, ancient and modern varieties of roses, peonies and camellias. The property includes also a wood, an orchard and an olive grove. This is the retreat of an old Pisan family that  boasts  among its ancestors Teresa V., known in the poetry of Shelley with the name of Emilie.

   Built in local stone evoking the small Romanesque parish churches of the region it was remodelled  in observance of the original spirit to render it comfortable in every season.

The living area, on the ground floor, consists of an entrance, a bathroom, a dining room with a  fireplace, a completely equipped kitchen and a large living room with large glass windows which face a splendid landscape. A spacious porch shades part of the large stone terrace from which there is a wonderful view of the valley up to the mountains behind Lucca.

The sleeping area, upstairs, consists in three double bedrooms with two bathrooms and a small study. The entire villa is served by central heating.

The windows look out onto the rose and hydrangea garden, onto the wood and the Lucca valley.

  The house is situated at Acquarella, Santa Maria del Giudice, near Lucca, 400 metres far from the village, where you can find a post office, bus stops for the local transport services, a grocer, a tobacconist, a chemist, a  hairdresser….

It is an ideal location for a holiday in contact with nature, with the possibility to walk in a private wood, to rest under oak trees and to read undisturbed in real “natural rooms” among laurels, strawberry-trees, chestnut trees, ashes.

Trekking

A short 2Km walk along a small path takes you to a splendid spot called Passo di Dante from which you can enjoy a marvellous view of the coast from Tuscany to Liguria . On very clear days it is possible to see the islands of the Tuscan archipelago (Gorgona, Capraia, Elba ) and sometimes even Corsica in the distance.

Roses

The large local stone terrace is bordered with a collection of ancient and modern varieties of roses, which bloom in spring and autumn and among them there are: …….

Hydrangeas

The hydrangeas, which bloom from spring to autumn enchant with their flowers that can be white, pink, red, violet:……

    Peonies

 The herbaceous and arboreal peonies with purple and violet flowers in full blossom in spring.

    Camellias

The pink and red camellias bloom even in winter if the weather is not too cold.

   Spontaneous plants

Along the brook:  water irises, white hellebores (Winter roses), elders, bamboos…

In the wood: hollies, butcher’s brooms, stipa , brooms, ferns. wild purple orchids and even some rare white specimens, ipericum, borragine, wild strawberries, strawberry-trees, laurels, chestnut trees, holm-oaks, alders, pines …   

Many kinds of indigenous flora are protected.

   Fruit-trees

A family orchard with old varieties provides a natural production rich in scents and flavours.

Apple-trees, cherry-trees, apricot-trees, medlar-trees, plum-trees, mulberries, persimmons, pears, fig-trees, chestnut-trees, hazel-trees, sorbs, biricoccole , jujubes, vines, olives.

A naturally cultivated olive grove of native varieties ( pendolino, leccino, frantoiano ) yields a small but valuable production of “extravergine” oil.