Agriturismo & Wellness in the hills above Pescia, Tuscany
In the hills above Pescia, between Lucca, Pisa and Florence, La Marginella is an eighteenth-century farmhouse built into the hillside among olive groves, a vineyard and the rhythms of a working farm. Four apartments — each named for its agricultural past — taken one at a time, or all four together as a single estate for fourteen. A swimming pool looking south down the valley. Among the olive trees, a wood-burning jacuzzi and a cold plunge, a gym in the open air, a yoga deck, and a fountain that runs day and night with water from the hill. None of it is scheduled. None of it costs anything.
La Marginella is not a place you stay. It is a place you return to.
Take one.
Or take the hill.
The farmhouse divides into four apartments, each named for what this building once was. Take one, and the rest of the estate is shared with a handful of other guests. Take all four, and the hillside is yours — fourteen people, one pool, one long table, and nobody else on it.
GUESTS
Il Fienile
The Barn
First floor, reached by an external stone staircase. A picture window onto the valley. The most private of the four.
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GUESTS
La Stalla
The Stable
Ground floor, original stone fireplace, direct access to the garden. The easiest apartment for early mornings and for dogs.
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GUESTS
L’Arancio
The Orange Tree
Ground floor, working fireplace, two bedrooms. Right for a small family.
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GUESTS
La Famiglia
The Family Home
Sixty-two square metres on the first floor, working fireplace in the living area, two doubles and a flexible third room.
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GUESTS
2 + 2 + 4 + 6
The Whole Estate
All four apartments, the pool, the wellness estate and the terrace, taken by one group. Four front doors, four kitchens, one hillside, and nobody else on it.
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South, down the valley
The pool sits on its own sun terrace above the valley, looking south toward Pescia and the hills beyond it. In July and August it is simply where the day happens: long mornings, lunch in the shade, the water going from cold to warm by eleven, and children in and out of it until the light goes. There is a children’s pool beside it.
It is not overlooked, and it is not shared with anyone but the people staying here. If you have taken the whole estate, it is only ever your own group on it.
In the shoulder months it does something else. The water is bracing in May and again in late September, the terrace holds the heat long after the air has cooled, and there is usually nobody on it at all.
Fire, water,
cold, air.
Some tens of metres from the house, among the olive trees: a wood-burning jacuzzi, a cold plunge, a gym in the open air and a deck for yoga. Nearby, a fountain runs continuously with water from the hill.
There is no electricity out there. No lighting rig, no music, no reception desk, and nothing to book. Someone lights the fire under the jacuzzi in the afternoon and it is hot by evening. The plunge is cold because the hill is cold.
It is farm infrastructure that happens to restore people. It is not priced, it is not packaged, and it is not scheduled. The moment any of this acquires a price it becomes a spa.
Oil, water,
and the lemon trees
The olive grove is old — older than anyone here can say with certainty. We harvest from it every autumn, pressing an oil that carries the particular character of this hillside: grassy, peppery, rooted in this soil and nowhere else. It carries the IGP seal because it could only come from here. That is not a marketing claim. It is geography.
Around it: a small vineyard, a vegetable garden, a fruit orchard, and the lemon trees that still give their fruit and end up, some of them, in the bottle left on your kitchen counter.
The fountain runs all day and all night. A carafe is filled and waiting in every apartment. No single-use plastic bottles are sold, supplied or stocked anywhere on this property.
Pescia
Switzerland
Two centuries ago the Genevan intellectual Sismondi stood in these mountains and saw something that reminded him of home. He was the first visitor to put a name to what locals had always known: that this corner of Tuscany is quietly extraordinary — not the Tuscany of postcards and tourist buses, but a wilder, older, less discovered version of the same landscape. La Marginella sits at its heart.
The trail begins at the gate. Lucca is twenty minutes away, Pisa forty, Florence and the coast inside an hour and a half. You can do all of it. You can do none of it.
Your Ocean Escape in Sri Lanka
Beautiful beachfront accommodation in Ahangama & Koggala — relax, surf, explore and experience the best of Southern Sri Lanka.
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Ocean Mandala Ahangama
Three apartments around a swimming pool, roughly 2.7 km from the centre of Ahangama, with the beach and the surf points a short ride away.
- Approximately 2.7 km from Ahangama centre
- Beach and surfing areas nearby
- Swimming pool and tropical garden
Koggala Ocean Mandala
A newly developed apartment in a quiet corner of Koggala, about 500 m from the beach.
- Maximum 4 guests
- Approximately 500 m from the beach
- Peaceful location, newly developed property
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Easy access to the beautiful Sri Lankan coastline.
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Surf, whales, rainforest and rice and curry — arranged from the front desk, at your pace.
Surfing experience
2 hours
Beginner-friendly beach breaks and reef points a short ride from the apartments, with board hire and an instructor arranged for you.
from €45
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Whale watching
Half day
An early start from Mirissa harbour into the blue-whale grounds off the south coast, best between November and April.
from €65
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Galle Fort
Half day
Ramparts, Dutch colonial streets, small galleries and a sunset walk along the sea wall of the fortified old town.
from €50
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Mirissa
Half day
Coconut Tree Hill, the crescent bay and the quiet end of the beach, with time for a long lunch by the water.
from €40
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Yala National Park
Full day
Leopards, elephants, sloth bears and lagoon birdlife, in a private jeep with a tracker.
from €120
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Sinharaja rainforest
Full day
A guided walk through the last major stand of primary lowland rainforest on the island, rich in endemic birds.
from €75
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- Approximately 165 km from Bandaranaike International
- Private, air-conditioned vehicle
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Ocean Mandala Ahangama
- Approximately 2.7 km from Ahangama centre
- Beach and surfing areas nearby
- Southern Sri Lanka
Koggala Ocean Mandala
- Approximately 500 m from the beach
- Peaceful location
- Southern Sri Lanka
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