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Surroundings

The Ligurian and Tuscan Territory

The “Antico Casale” Residence stands on the border between Liguria and Tuscany, in a context of incommensurable beauty, surrounded by renowned tourist attractions, preserving the peace and quiet that only the green countryside can offer. Here with us you have the choice to sleep in holiday apartments and b&b style rooms surrounded by their beautiful park, a venue similar to a farmhouse, close to the centre of Sarzana and just a few km away from the suggestive Cinque Terre to the west and the seductive Versilia to the East.
The “Antico Casale” Residence is the starting point for trips to the sea, from here you can reach Marinella di Sarzana, in just 10 minutes by car, or do trekking on the Apuan Alps ” or else visit the Carrara marble caves and the picturesque hamlet of Fosdinovo in the Lunigiana area.
Finally, from this tourist destination point one can easily reach the art towns of Luca, Pisa and Florence. Infact this holiday accommodation offers a wide array of opportunities one can benefit from all year round.

Cinque Terre

From the “Antico Casale” holiday apartments and rooms the visitor can organize a trip outside town towards the “Cinque Terre” in total relax. Starting from La Spezia Central Train Station one can easily reach, in less than one hour drive, the first one of the “Cinque Terre”, Riomaggiore. It’s advisable to get to the “Cinque Terre” via sea, by ferry boat, in order to fully enjoy the enchanting beauty of this coastline. The ferries depart either from Lerici pier or La Spezia and Portovenere piers.
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Portovenere

A UNESCO site, universal heritage of Humanity, source of inspiration for poets, writers, painters and artists, today as ever Portovenere excites admiration and attraction from international visitors and tourists. Besides, how not to be fascinated by the colours of the tower-houses lined up on the waterfront, S. Peter’s Church perched on a rock spur and the architecture of the inner alleys.
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Lerici

The hamlet of Lerici, of Roman origin, creeps into one of the most beautiful inlets of the Eastern “Ligurian Riviera”, inside the Gulf of the Poets, in La Spezia province. Visited by the English romantic poets in the nineteenth century, it’s dominated by the imposing “Genoese Castle”, built in medieval times and home, today, to the Geopaleontological Museum. This museum offers all visitors the chance to relive, on a virtual level, the prehistoric world.
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Sarzana

The “Antico Casale” Holiday Apartments and Rooms is only 6 minutes away from the beautiful art town of Sarzana. To this date, this town, of medieval origin, preserves the two monumental “Porta Parma” and “Porta Romana” gates: from its historical pedestrian centre one can visit the ancient Church “Pieve di Sant’Andrea”, “Santa Maria” Cathedral, “Piazza Matteotti” with its historic Palaces, among which the “Council Palace”.
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Il Golfo dei Poeti and La Spezia

The Port of La Spezia, indeed all the Gulf, is one of the most wonderful things to be found in Italy… going up towards the bottom of the Gulf from Portovenere, there is a gulf called The Castagna; then a tip of land, where a fort is; then a Gulf, which is the Varignano harbor, wonderful…
Charles De Montesquieu (Viaggio in Italia 1728).
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Carrara and its marble caves

Carrara is renowned all over the world for the fine white marble of the “Apuan Alps”. The Carrara caves are the places where marble is excavated and processed. Leaving the sea behind and going up the road that, from the center of Carrara, climbs up the Apuan Alps, one is captured by the majesty of these mountains that are cut by suggestive nineteenth century bridges over which the ancient marble railway ran through.
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Versilia

Versilia is that part of the province of Lucca (togliere compresa) stretching between the mountain chain of the Apuan Alps, which runs parallel to the coast, and the “Riviera” itself. It stretches for about 165 km. and is divided into “Low Versilia” and “High Versilia”. The Versilia area, a renowned sea resort with many long sandy beaches overlooking the Tyrrhenean Sea, is also a wordly destination thanks to its lively nightclubs.
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Lucca, Pisa and Florence

From the “Antico Casale” Residence, in just 50 minutes by car, it’s possible to reach the towns of Lucca, Pisa and Florence: rich in history, culture, traditions and charm.
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