Spalanni is 48KMS from Florence and getting there is easy on the regular bus service into the city, or Arrezo 30 KMs, excellent train service from nearby village. Nearer to home are the magnificent hill villages of Poppi- with a spectacular castle, Ponte Poppi and surrounding area providing wonderful sightseeing and walking country. Venture a little further a field to experience the delights of Sienna-famous for the horse racing around its cobbled piazza, the sanctuary of St Francis at La Verna- Reputed to be one of the holiest places of Christianity.
In Tuscany, Casentino is an Apennine valley that lies between Arezzo, Florence and Forli. A land of century-old forests, castles, Romanesque parishes, Della Robbia terracottas, Dantesque places and spiritual spots, it is the essence of charm and values in which mankind blends in perfectly with the environment. Romanesque parishes-real gems studding the landscape - frescos attributed to Giotto's School and treasures of the Della Robbia's School and castles surrounded by evocative Medieval villages. The whole of Casentino abounds in art, not to mention the peace and quiet of the forest where two major spiritual and religious centres of Christian world find their ideal setting- Camaldoli and La Verna Sanctuary.
On following tourist itineraries in Casentino you will find that it is shrouded in mystery and your trip will turn into a human cultural and naturalistic adventure with a whole series of excursions in valleys along mountain ridges and in century old woods available.
