Dimora Casa Eugenia

Breakfast

Guests can enjoy a rich special Eugenia’s continental Breakfast in the suggestive “Sala degli Archi”.
During spring-summertime can be also served on a private hanging garden facing the river.
 

Restaurant “Sala degli Archi”
Dimora Casa Eugenia offers the opportunity of a private dining room, called “Sala degli Archi” for a maximum of 35 persons. The ideal spot for important business lunch or private wedding reception.

Lounge Bar / Library:
Guests can relax in our “Sala degli Affreschi” a beautiful room decorated by frescos representing the four seasons, sipping an aperitif a cup of tea or reading one of the numerous books (in different languages) available.

Winebar - Restaurant Vino al Vino

Next to the hotel, our Winebar Restaurant Vino al Vino, is a further extension of the hotel’s splendour.
The suggestive location (facing the Ciuffenna river) and the Chef ability make it an appointment not to loose: dishes of the Tuscan cuisine, beautifully presented, accompanied by a wide selection of national and international wines, attentively chosen by our experienced Maitre.
It was the sentinels station at the custom to enter in the Medieval village of Loro Ciuffenna. Stone and soft lighting make a very relaxing, intimate atmosphere. During spring and summertime travellers can enjoy their meals in our huge walk out terrace, facing the river.

The Cellar

The Bianchi family has decided to make the most of the high number of local wines from the area in which the wine shop “Vino al Vino” is located, in the cellar a selection of Tuscan and Italian wines is available.

Services

A qualified oenologist's know ledges will bring you through an excellent tasting way, completing the others internal services.

Internal Services
- Snacks/light lunch
- Aperitif
- Dinners served in the wide terrace
- After dinner cocktails

LORO CIUFFENNA

It’s a medieval village (328 asl) in the Arno Valley.
Built in the rocks of the Ciuffenna torrent (a Arno river’s affluent) is one of the most suggestive places of this area.

The historic center is a maze of small streets and alleys, with an especially fascinating Romanesque bridge over the Ciuffenna. From the bridge one can admire the ancient stone mill, still perfectly functional today, used for grinding chestnuts and cereals. Here man’s ingenuity harnessing a force of nature has combined to produce a suggestive scene, unique also because of the musical roar – sometimes soft, sometimes, thunderous – of the Ciuffenna waterfall.

The Palazzo Comunale holds the works of the contemporary local artist Venturino Venturi. In the museum, entirely dedicated to this artist from Loro, his drawings, paintings and sculptures are permanently exhibited. Realised by means of many techniques and with various materials, including wood, iron, cemento ceramics and stone, they are the result of fifty years of intense activity.

VALDARNO VALLEY

Valdarno is the valley that unwinds along the bed of the Arno river, between the impressive Pratomagno massif and the Chianti hills.The territory is crossed by the Setteponti road. Harmonically integrated with the rural environment it is the road of the Roman churches and abbeys; the road offers the opportunity of a trip from Earth to Paradise, where spiritual and artistic interest meet with memories of Rome and the Renaissance, with its small historical centres amongst the hills.
The Setteponti road begins near Arezzo- at the hamlet of Ponte a Buriano, referring to the present bridge which was constructed in 1277.- comes to Loro Ciuffenna and ends up to Fiesole.
The name of the road may have derived from the seven arches of the bridge (which is the background of one of Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpieces “The Mona Lisa-La Gioconda”).
The valley below is easily reachable by an excellent network of provincial and secondary roads- along which one finds ancient villages, small castles and Romanesque churches. The area is studded with olive trees, grapevines, and, a characteristic feature of landscape, the geolocical formation of cliffs, known as the “Balze”.

THE PROTECTED AREA OF “LE BALZE” (CRAGS)

The Balze are a fairytale landscape. Sculped by water and wind over hundred of millions of year, the Valdarno crags are a unique and original geological phenomenon in Italy. Many experts retain that the shapes and forms of the Valdarno crags are represented in Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings (The Madonna of Rocks) and it is likewise for other masters of the Renaissance, such as Masaccio and Beato Angelico.

THE OTHER TUSCANY … NOT TO LOOSE

There is a part of Tuscany which is not yet worldwide known; it is a not touristy area and it is kept secret by deep Tuscany connoisseurs. This is the Tuscany of Parish Church at Gropina, Pratomagno massif, Valley of Hell and the Oasis of Bandella.


PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT PETER IN GROPINA

It is the most significant example of Romanesque architecture in the territory of Arezzo.
It owes its absolute singularity not only to the Roman remains discovered in the course of excavations carried out in the immediate surroundings, but also to those still visible underneath the church which reveal traces of two previous churches, the first built between the 5th and 6th centuries a.C. and the second in the Longobard period (8th/9th centuries).
The present construction dates from the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th and it is one of the purest examples of classical romanesque architecture.
 

PRATOMAGNO MOUNTAIN

The Pratomagno is geographically that part of the Appenines which divides the Valdarno from the Casentino, on the slopes of which the road of Setteponti originated and the Pieve di Gropina was built. This part of Tuscany is primarily known as a green country area to go to for relaxation, in order to escape the summer heat or to find snow in winter, or, in autumn, to go to for walks in colourful forests of chestnuts which make us think to paradise.
It is 1591 meters a.s.l. and owes part of its beauty to the numerous small mountain villages which have sprung us on its slopes.
It is an ideal place for long hikes-on foot, mountain bike or on horseback.
The Pratomagno offers tourists wanting a vacation immersed in nature a whole series of profoundly Tuscan sensations: from vast panorams they can admire from its crest (where a big iron cross has been placed, known as “Croce del Pratomagno”) to the pleasure of walking on soft, grassy meadows, and to exceptional experience of swimming in the bends of the Ciuffenna river.
The mountain is rich in archaeology and legends, in medieval castles and stories of poverty, and also in traditional Tuscan products. The chestnut flour is one: not only you can enjoy its taste, you can see the entire production cycle from the tree to the kitchen.
 

THE VALLEY OF HELL AND THE OASIS OF BANDELLA

The Valley of Hell is like a secret, it is not where one would expect it to be; next to the motorway and the railway alongside the river Arno.
Nevertheless it’s a very important “humid area”, which extends for tens of hectares and its populated by flocks of herons, magpies, Italian knights and other migrating birds.
The lake in the Oasis of Bandella was formed following the construction of the dam, in 1956, for the production of electrical energy, with the refilling of the valley and transformation into lacustrine area with its progressive re-naturalisation and nowadays has become an area that need protection and control as a richly bio-diverse environment.

 

DISTANCES

Siena – km 55
Firenze – km 44
Arezzo – km 28
Parish church at Gropina - km 2
Le Balze - km 8
Venturino Venturi Museum - km 0.8
The Valley of Hell - km 15


For those who are fashion lovers famous Outlets, as Prada (Levanella - km 18), The Mall (Rignano - km 30), Outlet Village (Valdichiana - km 50) are in the surroundings.