Charming holiday homes in Tuscany.

Rosennano is a small medieval hamlet that has been masterfully restored to preserve its historical charm. From it’s elevated position it dominates the southern Chianti’s valleys: the views range over chestnut and oak woodlands, vineyards and olive groves and reach all the way to the Crete Senesi. It is an enchanted corner in the heart of Tuscany, ideal for unforgettable holidays. 
 

The panorama extends over several kilometres, the palette of colours in the surrounding territory change with the weather and the seasons, offering new sceneries every day.

The gaze travels over the entire southern Tuscany reaching the borders with Lazio and Umbria; a spectacular background in which to feel truly a part of the scenery. 

Le Balze di Rosennano offers several charming self-contained dwellings embedded within different historic buildings of the Borgo, ideal for spending a holiday among nature, art, history and the local wine and food traditions: all the best of the Italian good life.

 

An unforgettable holiday begins from feeling at home.

 

Yesterday’s world with all of today’s comforts.

 

Arriving in this enchanted hamlet is like taking a leap back in time. Each stone speaks of an ancient story; and indeed the first documents mentioning the ancient Settlement of Rosennanno date back the beginning of the  13th Century.  The 12 houses recorded in 1300 in the Record of Holdings already constituted a small village, endowed with its own church: the ‘Eclesia Sancti Bartolomey de Rosennano’, depending from the parish of Santa Maria d’Altaserra (Montebenichi). In the early decades of the 19th Century the hamlet counted 141 inhabitants, including those living in the scattered farmhouses around the village. 

From the end of the second world war, unfortunately, Rosennano’s population began gradually to dwindle with the transformations of peasant agriculture and lifestyle. The southern part of the hamlet, almost totally uninhabited for the last thirty years and in a state of grave disrepair, has finally been recovered thanks to a restoration project resulting in the transformation of the old farming structures (wine cellars, haylofts, ovens, storerooms, drying sheds) into the comfortable, modern homes of the “Balze di Rosennano”, holiday homes for tourists and travellers who wish to spend their free time immersed in nature and in the silence of this special location.