Introduction

a 17th century Tuscan watermill available to sleep 15 or up to four in five separate apartments. Painting courses also available.

Prices

Living space

Each apartment has its own living room, kitchen and bathroom

Bedrooms

There are two apartments for four people, and two apartments for two. The newest apartment is for three (not yet featured on our website).

Outdoors

Courtyard, large walled garden (complete with vine and rose pergola,millstone tables, barbecue, wood-burning pizza oven), lavendar garden with kiwi tree, riverside garden with plunge pool and terrace, millstream gardens (with bamboozery, wild flowers, fig trees) for about quarter of a mile upstream

Local information

Posara is a small, friendly village with ancient houses and narrow alleyways surrounded by vineyards and fields of maize and sunflowers.

Fivizzano is a walled Medieval market town, complete with a castle (just to the North) and a Medici fountain in the main piazza. There are lots of shops, both mini supermarkets and small shops selling local produce, notably hams, cheeses and wine, and plenty of cafes, ice cream parlouts, restaurants and pizzerias. You can hire the tennis court in Fiviazzno and there is a big outdoor swimming pool near the mill, on the road twoards the coast. Above the town, the scenery becomes spectacular, with beautfiul views over the mountains, olive groves, and oak chestnut forests.

This is just one of the parts of the region to explore because, despite its rural quiet, Posara is only 40 minutes drive from the coast and the beach resorts in the Gulf of Poets (Shelley and Byron swam here) and even less from the autostrade to Pisa, Lucca and Florence. At nearby Pontermoli theres a small, but fascinating, museum of Etruscan statues. If you tire of making excursions by foot or car, a train from nearby Soliera will take you through the hills to Lucca, skirting the National Park. From La Spezia, theres another traing journey through the cliffs and coves of the Cinque Terre, five fishing villages in spectacular setting. A walk from Monterooso to Vernazza along tyhe clifftop path (about two hours) is an unforgettable experience.