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Pool with panoramic views, Castello di Spaltenna
Rustic food offerings, Castel Monastero
Peaceful and elegant country vibes, Hotel Castello di Spaltenna
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or I was in Chiantishire (so called after the flurry of British tourists who take delight in the Tuscan countryside) with its light green vineyards, sunburnt wheat fields and long rows of trees comprising of tall poplars, parasol pines and upright cypresses that point delightfully in silhouette to the
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heavens. It was very late at night by the time I reached my hotel Castello di Spaltenna (www.spaltenna.it/en/ home). But the next morning compensated by heralding the utter joy of opening the shutters of my room, like a gift, to reveal the sunshine streaming in beneath the
countryside in her full glory. The hotel is cocooned among the ever-present vineyards, cypresses and ‘abete’ (fir trees) with curves of every shade of green that nature produces. The swallows swooped and swerved between the terraced flowerbeds; all very stimulating as I immersed myself in its utter stillness. ›