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Golf Club Castelfalfi

A few kilometers from the agritourism, you can practice golf at the new Castelfalfi Golf Club, with 27 holes. With its 27 holes, it is challenging also for experienced players, and guarantees fun time to beginners and practitioners, providing also a practice pitch for those who have never tried before, some covered bays for conducting clinics and a small Club House with a bar and a terrace. Both routes were born from an accurate re-design of an pre-existing golf course, designed by a prestigious couple of architects, with great experience and sensitivity: Rainer Preissmann and Wilfried Moroder, both associated EIGCA – European Institute of Golf Course Architects – London. The Mountain Course (par 72 – 6,351 meters), internationally awarded with the 3rd prize in the prestigious “GOLF INC. The “Renovation of the Year Award 2011” is a Champions Course, challenging and very technical, but it can fits with less experienced players through 5 hit distances. The Lake Course (Par 37, 3,171 meters) was born from the desire to create a path for everyone, whatever their handicap, but technically and strategically engaging.

Casciana Terme Spa

Casciana Terme was born in the heart of the Pisan Hills, reachable in a short 30-minutes drive. The benefits of Thermal Water Mathelda, known since ancient times, are exploited in modern therapies of motor rehabilitation, in vascular care, in inhalation therapies and in the ones to improve digestive function. Beauty treatment, which help us please ourselves more, thanks to the smoothing and relaxing action, which is a coadjuvant in search of well-being.

The Prehistoric Park

The Prehistoric Park in Peccioli is a great place to live funny moments! In just 15 minutes by car you can discover the Prehistoric Park, with guided tours, itineraries between the recreations of dinosaurs, school trips, a play area for kids and adults to spend a day outdoors in a safe and controlled environment.

Valdera Museum Network

In 2003 some municipalities of Valdera have joined forces to enhance their small and large museums Culture; their environment and territory offer essential opportunities to the cultural and economic development of an area. One of the basic factors of this process is the knowledge of places, stories, societies, that you can acquire through a cultural journey. Tourism, therefore, enhances the territory and its cultural heritage, but to make this possible it is necessary to create a network of museums spread throughout the territory and appropriate to “welcome” the visitors. The Towns of Unione Valdera which adhere to the Museum Network for the year 2012::

Pontedera
Museo Piaggio
Centro per l’Arte Otello Cirri
Centro studi Andrea da Pontedera e centro di documentazione fotografica
Centrum Sete Sòis Sete Luas di Pontedera

Ponsacco
Museo del Legno

Bientina
Museo della Pieve
Museo della Storia Antica del Territorio di Bientina

Peccioli
Museo Archeologico
Museo di Arte Sacra
Museo di Palazzo Pretorio

Palaia
Casa museo Vaccà-Berlinghieri
Montefoscoli – Museo della Civiltà Contadina
San Gervasio – Museo del Lavoro e della Civiltà Rurale

Casciana Terme
Mostra Archeologica: Etruschi a Parlascio. Mostra di cantiere

Capannoli
Museo Archeologico della Valdera
Museo Zoologico

Lari
Castello dei Vicari

Fauglia
Museo Giorgio Kienerk

Wine

The Wine Route of the Pisan Hills is a trail that winds around the hillls of the Valdera and lower Valdarno. Visitors travelling along the winding, panoramic roads come across towns and villages awash with history and culture, romantic hamlets and impressive farmhouses, where they can discover wine producers and shops, local produce and high quality food shops.
The wine cellars of pisan hills are famous for its excellent production of wine: Chianti DOCG, Colli dell’Etruria Centrale DOC (red and white types), San Torpé DOC (different typologies), Terre di Pisa DOC and Terre di Pisa Sangiovese DOC. The IGT (indication of Geographical Typicity) wines encommpass such a large variety of types throughout the territory. Including the category of wine called Supertuscans which, thanks to an accurate selection of varietal, careful vinification and ageing in small (barriques) or large (tonneaux) barrels have great structure and longevity.

Maps the Wine Route of the Pisan Hills

CHIANTI COLLINE PISANE

The Chianti Colline Pisane its a DOCG wine produced in Tuscany Region in provincie of Pise.

Its produced with Sangiovese (70-100%) and other and other varieties suitable for cultivation in the region Toscana (max 30%).

BIANCO PISANO DI SAN TORPÈ

The Bianco Pisano di San Torpè its a DOC wine whose production is allowed in the provinces of Livorno and Pisa. Variety is also produced by the same name Vin Santo.

TREBBIANO

The Trebbiano toscano has a common origin with other grape varieties of the Trebbiani families, know in Italy since roman. History has brought the Trebbiano toscano in France, with name of Ugni Blanc, where it forms the basis for the production of Cognac and Armagnac.

Its a vine characterized more by productivity that personality, and, thanks to the high acidity that gives the wines, lends itself withering, giving its highest expression in Vin Santo del Chianti.

White Truffle

Il Tuber magnatum, commonly called White Truffle, is the most valuable species of truffle absolute both from the point of view gourmet from a purely economic, given the high costs that the same can reach.

Tuscany is one of the most important regions in Italy for truffle production. Collection consists mostly of white, black and marzuolo truffle.

The famous White Truffle of Sanminiatesi hills who near 40 years celebrates in november its national fair. It’s present also in Valdera, with greater concentration in the hills of Peccioli and Palaia.

Teatro del Silenzio

The Theatre of Silence is an amphitheater created by exploiting the natural contour of a hill near the village of Lajatico, in the province of Pisa.

“Theatre of Silence” is born from the creative mind of Alberto Bartalini and a group of people who have come together with the intention of creating a place to convey ideas, emotions, art, music, dance with however, the unique characteristics of the scenery in which these “forces” will occur.

Factors of this project are the members of the Scientific Committee which is composed of both luminaries of science as Professor Franco Mosca, who as exponents of international photographer Mario Mulas; Also essential are the cornerstones Architect Alberto Bartalini, a native of Lajatico and active rediscoverers of socio-cultural traditions and places of our land, the Mayor of Lajatico Fabio Tedeschi (President of the Committee) and the lawyer. Enrico Fabbri (Vice-President of the Committee) of the association representing the Plough, which have always been sensitive to the cultural and social events that can bring out the unique character of this country and the places near it, but above all the biggest supporter , as well as Honorary President of this project, is the Tenor Andrea Bocelli.

Born in this land, Andrea wanted to create a place to bring his whole world of music, the emotions experienced with intense feelings and details, in a living space with his friends singers, enraptured by the suggestive sensations there will certainly to participate in an event of this type.

A project silent, in a place that 364 days of the year remains intact in its harmony and for a single day comes alive for a different life, a human made of natural characters of song, dance and the arts performing national and international, who will perform along with the one who brought the Italian melody in the world.

Museo Piaggio

The Museo Piaggio was opened in March 2000 in the 3,000 square meters of former tooling workshop, one of the oldest buildings and fascinating industrial complex in Pontedera, where the company settled its production since the early twenties of the ‘900. The museum was created to preserve and enhance the heritage of one of the oldest Italian and aims to reconstruct the history of Piaggio and its Territory retracing a long stretch of Italian history, the fact of economic, customs and industrial development, through the exhibition of its most famous and representative and thanks to the rich documentation preserved in the Historical Archives.

Its halls house the Vespa and Gilera collections alongside the most significant products of Piaggio (aircraft engines thirties, a specimen of the driving station MC2 54, 1936, the plane P148 of 1951, the Bee, the Pentarò, the Hello , to the latest generation scooters).

Since opening in 2000, the Piaggio Museum has had more than 400,000 visitors , with a continued increase until reaching a record of more than 44,000 people in 2014. It is therefore among the five museums’ company most visited in Italy.

Museo Piaggio
Viale Rinaldo Piaggio, 7 – 56025 Pontedera (PI)
tel: +39 058727171
e-mail: museo@museopiaggio.it
www.museopiaggio.it

Opening time
Tuesday – Friday: 10.00 – 18.00
Saturday: 10.00 – 13.00 | 14.00 – 18.00
Second and fourth Sunday of the month: 10.00 – 18.00
Monday: Closed

Free Entry
For more information visit the website www.museopiaggio.it