Apartment, 135 m², Sleeps 8 people
4 bedrooms
, 4 bathrooms
La Loggia is a large 4-bedroom apartment that occupies the entire top floor of an old stone building within the castle walls. Access is by a flight of stairs.
The large living/dining room has a corner fireplace that can be used to grill meat in the Tuscan fashion, a dining table that can seat up to 12 people and a full kitchen with a dishwasher. There is ample seating space, and glass doors give access to a covered terrace that offers outdoor seating for 8, with sweeping views of the valley and the wooded hills.
The 4 bedrooms are in the four corners of the apartment so they all have windows on two sides. Each bedroom has a private bathroom; some bathrooms have shower stalls, some have showers over bathtubs. In three bedrooms, the beds can be united as a queen or separated as twin singles; in the fourth bedroom the bed is necessarily queen.
This apartment also has a washing machine.
La Loggia is part of the San Giovanni building, which also includes San Giovanni West and San Giovanni East. The outside entrance is shared with San Giovanni East. The three apartments of the San Giovanni building can be interconnected and rented together to accommodate up to 16 people.
+ € 210 one-time fee
+ € 210 one-time fee
+ € 400 one-time fee
High Season
: June and September
Mid Season
: May, July, August, October
and Christmas/New Year holidays
Low Season
: March and April (for November and December please inquire)
Loggia, the top floor of the San Giovanni building, commands a breathtaking view of the valley below.
The building appears to have been originally three surveillance towers, erected by the Longobards around 700 AD after they invaded Tuscany. The center tower was the oldest and appears to have fallen, in part, during Berardenga times.
Looking back from the castle walls a keen eye can still detect the cornerstones of the two flanking towers and a line of demarcation where the top part was reconstructed.
Later the lower part was roofed over to provide an attic space for raising silkworms, pigeons and chickens, and for drying ears of corn, garlic and onions for the winter, while pigs, cows and oxen were kept in the barn downstairs (Fondi), and the contadino and his large family lived on the middle floor.