Borgo la Fratta

Barberino di Mugello (Florence)

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Sport In the neighbourhood: Canoe - Golf - Riding school/ Horse riding - Mugello International race-course, Bilancino’s lake with its beaches. Set in a typical hillside landscape on the Bilancino lake (the biggest Tuscan lake), this 3-hectare historic estate - at 300 metres above sea level - is within easy driving distance of Florence (25 km), Siena (75 km), Lucca (60 km), Pisa (70 km), Volterra (70 km), San Gimignano (50 km) and the Tuscan coastline.

With quality accommodation and fittings, this is an ideal base for your family holiday or for a group of friends to explore Tuscany. Near the hamlet is possible to practise golf (Poggio dei Medici golf club), horse tours, fishing and canoeing lake (Bilancino lake), visit the the Mugello International race-course. In the hamlet is possible to rent mountain bikes, to reserve massage, to reserve typical Tuscan dinner.

Sport: birdwatching, swimming, canoeing, wndsurfing, walking, mountain biking. The farm holiday is 5 minutes from highway, 3 minutes from Designer Outlet, 15 minutes from Mugello International race-course, 25 minutes from the centre of Florence.
 
In only 10 minutes you can go to the Gabbianello’s Oasi where you can make beautiful trekking and to make birdwatching. You can see many interesting species of birds: mallards, storks, cranes and pink flamingos. Here you can appreciate the naturalistic value of landscape, plants and animals

On the shore of the Bilancino  lake and in its clean water, there are many activities you can do, such as bathing, canoeing, sailing, windsurf, trekking, mountain bike. Lake Bilancino, moreover is located in the uncontaminated natural environment of Mugello, full of cultural and artistic beauties. It is rich of beautiful old country villas and churh like Bosco ai Frati. In that church you can appreciate the fantastic Donatello’s Christ
3 minutes far from the estate is a new  Designer Outlet with its 100 shops with the best brands at special prices.

FLORENCE
25 minutes to arrive in one of the most beautiful cities of Italy. You arrive in Florence with a pleasant road that offers views that charm.
Distances:
Florence: 25 minutes
Rome/Milan: 3 hours
Venice: 2 hours
Bologna: 45 minutes
Prato: 25 minutes
Pistoia: 35 minutes
Siena/ Lucca / San Gimignano/Volterra/Arezzo: 1hour e 15 minuti
Pisa: 1 ora
Chianti: 40 minutes

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