La Peschiera is located in the oldest, medieval part of the town of Asciano. The apartment takes its name from the street where it is located, via della Peschiera, adjacent to the fourteenth-century walls, where once there were water basins and a mill. The town of Asciano allows you to easily visit the surroundings. Siena, Arezzo, Montepulciano, Pienza, Montalcino and Chianti are only half an hour away by car, the Monte Oliveto Maggiore Abbey and Rapolano’s thermal bath only 8km away. The apartment consists of a living room, a dining room with kitchenette (equipped with fridge, oven, stove), bathroom with shower, double bedroom, second double bedroom in the loft with air conditioning). La Peschiera has a washing machine, independent heating, a small garage and a parking space.

Everything happened in September 1260; Florence threteaned Siena with a big army and it asked the inconditional surrender in exchange of not destroying it. The Sienese people, for not to loose the freedom decided to counter-attack. They asked help to the castles and the villages most faithful to the Republic. The Ascianese people rushed quickly and their contribution for their victory was so determinant to deserve the call the appellation of the “ascianese polite”. The courtesy, this kindness we put at your disposal to make your stay in Terra di Siena, the most agreeble as possible. We are Matteo and Valentina, our office is in Asciano, where we leave and where we are always in contact with our costumers giving them help and assistance during their holiday (Our staff speak Italian, English, French, German, Spanish). We offer our costumers a full service through the experience and the knowledge of people who were born and grown in the aridity of these earths, and wants to help you to understand them and to appreciate them. Our work is made from a staff of people who have the experience of a life spent between calanchi and biancane, rejoicing or crying in Siena, in the Campo, during the Palio. We are waiting for you!!!

In the south-west of Siena, in the upper basin of the Ombrone, there is a wide territorial strip characterised by the presense of innumerable minuscule summits of white or yellowish clay, often found amidst deep chasm or dug into frail crests. It is the region of Crete Senesi: a constantly changing landscape in the alternating succession of the seasons, thanks to incessant erosive phenomena. These hills become green in spring due to the recent wheat seedings and grow purple in summer with flowering dense sulla clover. These panoramas inspired the backgrounds of the panels and frescoes of the most prestigious Sienese painters of the past. Today, there is no photographer, film- amateur, or wandering artist who has not been intrigued by the erosion furrows and Jura limestone, tha sunny but tremendous splendour of the crete, They change colour in every season. Here there are the numerous thermal spas where in few km a popular thermal spa centre haa developed for the treatment of the respiratory illness and of the skin. But the most important thing is the gastronomy, represented by three big products, pecorino cheese, olive oil, wine. The cooking is poor and is handed on from our country culture, based of bread without salt, olive oil and tomato, but also rich of resoluted tastings. The mystique of the Crete area is timeless. Here each day represents another step in an ongoing cycle of changing colours and infinite silence. The Crete is home to some of the most remote vestiges of the Sienese heritage, with its towers and castles reaching toward the sky and its enchanting landscape in the Val d'Orcia. Here nature has created a sort of perfect island, with such unique geometry and hues that in the 1800s visitors drawn here by their love of the landscapes in 14th-century Sienese madonna icons were bewildered to find them faithfully reproduced.