HANDBOOK OF SUSTAINABLE TOURIST
Sustainability is a bit a way of life - and travel - based on three "simple" aspects:
• The common sense
• The respect
• The information
The following handbook can help to increase your knowledge about the impact of tourism and the effects of yo...
The Mugello
Art and Territory
The Mugello valley, is a depression that starts to form 10 million years ago, when the Tuscany's sediments began to suffer compression, which caused the uplift of the crust in several areas, forming large folds and dams, and giving...
Barberino di Mugello
Barberino di Mugello 2 km from the farmhouse of Corzano
It 's the most east town of the Mugello, and has always been an important crossroads, thanks to the connection to Emilia Romagna through the Futa pass, and south to Croci pass from which we go...
The cities of the Mugello
The area offers a very busy calendar of exhibitions, events and festivals that takes place in cities and villages in the Mugello area. Check the dates on www.mugellotoscana.it to link http://goo.gl/SVaHQ
Below is a brief description of the main c...
By bicycle
Tuscany is a land of great cycling champions who have made the history of this sport; on September 2013 in the Region have taken place the Road World Championship. In the Mugello were born: Gastone Nencini, winner of a Giro d'Italia and a Tour de...
Trekking routes
Trekking Routes and The Military Road Via Flaminia
If you love walking in the nature, from the farmhouse Corzano, you can try the old military road that leads the village Montecarelli in about 6 kms, and then following the main road to the top, at Monte...
The cemeteries of the Second World War
For a journey into memory.
The mountains on the north of Mugello were from summer 1944 to spring 1945, the scene of bloody battles, where the Germans, arranged on a line, called "Gothic Line", intended to stop or at least slow the Allies advance.
At...
Mugello faentina railroad
Mugello is crossed by a historic railway line, diesel traction, dedicated now only to local transport.
The first stretch from Florence to Borgo San Lorenzo were opened in 1890; and in1893 the stretch from Borgo San Lorenzo to Marradi, completed the...
Museum system of Mugello and florentine's mountains
The Spread Museum is a network of 15 museums points located throughout the area of Mugello and the Sieve Valley and is divided into four systems:
- System of Nature (vegetation and fauna)
- System Demo-ethno-anthropological
- System of Historical...
Cities of Tuscany
Florence 35 kms away from the farmholiday Corzano
The Tuscan capital is approximately 40 min. by car or, in alternative by bus from Barberino di Mugello, at 2 kms, or train from San Piero a Sieve station at15 kms, please check the timetables of of...