Cortona hotel >> Villa di Piazzano

The Hotel Villa di Piazzano is a manor house of the 1400s located in the countryside just outside the town of Cortona, a town on the border between Tuscany and Umbria made famous by the American writer Frances Mayes with her book and later the movie, Under the Tuscan Sun.

The Villa was acquired some years ago by an Italian-Australian family with a tradition in hotels, the Wimpole family, which carefully transformed the Villa into an exclusive hotel, with that warm and intimate atmosphere that only a family run property can provide... more >>

Restaurant

The restaurant "L' Antica Casina di Caccia" offers simple and genuine specialities from the Tuscan and Italian cuisine. In the summer time, from May to September, light lunches and dinners are served on the terrace above the pool. In the cooler months, meals are served in the dining room. During the summer months a number of special events are also organized such as: dining with the tenors, evening jazz and informal barbecues. Dinner on evenings with a special event will have a fixed menu and cost... more >>

New cooking school facilities

In April 2011 we will be inaugurating our new kitchen for cooking lessons.
The new kitchen is located in the Limonaia annex, where there is also a dining room and outdoor terrace where one can enjoy the dishes prepared during the lesson.
The lessons are now available on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays starting at 10 am and concluding with lunch... More >>

Come and visit our new organic vegetable garden

Our organic vegetable garden has been created with medieval techniques and philosophy, respecting the ancients methods of cultivating vegetables in raised beds and growing them organically - simply with water, earth and tender loving care. This has been a welcome addition to our cooking school program which foresees a visit to the garden to pick the vegetables for the lesson.
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