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SAN MARCELLO How nice it is when you meet people who love their home!
You understand it immediately as soon as you see it and especially when you enter the house and you realize that nothing is out of place, everything is tidy and bright and that smell of cleanness immediately strikes you, floors that sparkle, attention to every detail. Everything is precise and perfect.
I like it!
Today I went to Tuscany, to San Marcello Pistoiese, about 700m above sea level, 21 km from the ski slopes of Abetone, 34 km from Pistoia and 77km from the sea of Viareggio and Forte dei Marmi (calculated with google maps). San Marcello has always been a tourist town known as a mountain health resort. It is a very typical and characteristic village of the Tuscan Apennines which hides a very long and very exciting suspension bridge between its valleys and an important telescope used as an astronomical observatory. one of the three villas that Admiral Lodolo had built in the early 1900s to host his friends on hot summer days. Think what a welcome!
Although it is right in the center of San Marcello, it is not easy to find this villa: you have to cross the center of the village and enter through a large gate and then take the whole "serpentine" road that crosses the garden of the house ( which is more a park than a garden) and which, climbing upwards, creates two flat spaces furnished with fountain chairs and tables. the terrace in front of the front door with two symmetrical rows of stairs delimited by white stone columns and the front door. square on three and a half floors, the external geometry is characterized by the symmetry of both the building and the garden typical of the period of construction. The part of the garden around the house is flat, it can be reached not only by the road to the side, but also by walking along a staircase bordered by hedges and columns that leads right to the center of the house: I go up the staircase and it opens up slowly before the front of the house and then the garden all around.
Garden that has an important and symmetrical tree lined with stone elements, liberty style concrete statues and chairs and tables in wrought iron and painted in white.
On the left side of the house , where the driveway leads to the access road, there is a second building that once housed the servants and which today is home to the wood boiler that feeds the villa's underfloor heating.
On the back of the house there is a sloping lawn with areas a walk among flat areas and fruit trees.
From every part of the garden you can see the roofs that draw the skyline of the town, the rolling Tuscan hills and beyond the Tyrrhenian Sea ...
If the garden is beautiful , L at home inside is wonderful .... continue on my website www.essereinmontagna.it
