Piazza

Stay in the center of town, on Montalcino's main square! This bright, attractive vacation apartment rental offers comfortable living in town. It features a quiet, private terrace in back and front windows that look out onto Piazza del Popolo, with its cafes and historic clock tower, the heart of Montalcino's civic life. This vacation rental apartment puts all of Montalcino at your doorstep.

The apartment entrance opens into a wide hallway from which you can enter the private bathroom and laundry room. Six steps lead up into an open, bright living area. The living room, dining room and kitchen are combined in this space, with a comfortable sofa on one wall and a well-outfitted kitchen on the other. A dining table separates the two. A door leads from this living space out onto a lovely private terrace. Here you will find a table and chairs for outdoor dining, overlooking the rooftops of Montalcino and the surrounding countryside.

The bedrooms are in the front of the apartment, with double-paned windows fronting the piazza. (The apartment also has AC to keep things quiet in summer.) One bedroom has an Italian queen bed. The second bedroom is small, with a bunk bed.

This apartment does not have adjacent parking. Guests use a reserved spot in a garage about a 5-minute walk away. Guests will also have special permission to drive into the piazza on arrival and departure days to load and unload luggage. Restaurants, shops, cafés and a supermarket are all within easy walking distance.

WiFi speed as of 4/19/22: 30 Mbps Down/10 Mbps Up

Montalcino is a beautiful hill town, sporadically populated in Etruscan times and permanently settled around 1000 AD. The town was important in medieval times and its thirteenth-century walls are still largely intact. Today Montalcino is known for the Brunello wine made in its surrounding farmlands. Its center is pedestrian-friendly and walkable. Its narrow streets are lined with shops, good restaurants, lively cafés and wine bars. It hosts an open-air market on Fridays and offers a museum of sacred art. Visitors to the town’s fourteenth-century fortress can climb its tower for a spectacular view of the countryside or sample local wines in its basement cantina. The town offers banks, ATMs, coffee bars, a grocery store and a good bakery.

Staying in the countryside outside Montalcino puts you in the heart of the Tuscan wine belt, in the shadow of countless wineries and an easy drive to Chianti country. Traditional farm life continues in Montalcino and the many beautiful hill towns that surround it. Here, artisans sell pottery, small restaurants create traditional Tuscan meals, and old parish churches hide stunning frescoes.

Montalcino is about 40 minutes south of Siena and an 90 minutes south of Florence. Other day trips from UnTours’ Tuscany vacation rental apartments include the historic hill towns of San Gimignano, Pienza, Montepulciano, and San Galgano; the Etruscan sites of Volterra, Chiusi, and Cortona; the natural beauty of Mt. Amiata and the coast; and the monasteries of Monte Oliveto and Sant’Antimo.

Your host does not live in the building but she and her family live only five minutes away; she is very friendly and speaks English. And our staff person is just a phone call away.