The municipality of Rufina is located in the Val di Sieve, in the province of Florence. It is a predominantly hilly area, where an excellent wine is produced. The countryside of the area is characterized by the variety of scenarios encountered. The suggestive geometries of the vine rows, often close to the rows of olive trees, sometimes interrupted by the golden wheat fields in a continuous repetition of hills that touch the woods of the mountain ridges, recalling alpine suggestions. A territory rich in ancient places of interest in the heart of Italian wine production. The village of Rufina with all kinds of shops is about 4 km away, Pontassieve approx 10 km and Florence approx. 30 km away.
Farmhouse from the early 1900s, once a brick firing kiln, of approx. 450 square meters located on two levels, ground floor and first floor with turret, about 220 square meters on the floor. The ground floor consists of a characteristic entrance with a wood-fired oven which leads to, on the right to a large kitchen and large living room with fireplace. From the kitchen, via a staircase in the storage room, you go down to the cellar, with two rooms of 18 and 22 square meters. To the left of the entrance we find a corridor that leads into a large double bedroom, two double bedrooms, a bathroom with shower, a second bathroom in the rough, now used as a laundry room and a huge living room with fireplace, with direct access to the front garden . A staircase that starts from the entrance leads to the first floor where there is a hallway with a storage room, a bedroom / study, 4 bedrooms and two bathrooms, a large kitchen and a large living room, equal to the same surface of the kitchen / living room of the floor land. A characteristic spiral staircase leads to a turret, probably an ancient dovecote, where there is a room used today as an attic and convertible into a bedroom or study with a panoramic view.
In front of the property there is a tiled courtyard with the possibility to park two cars and a nice gazebo, to be used during the summer for pleasant lunches and dinners in the open air. An external staircase leads down to the second entrance from the outside of the cellar.
The former farmhouse has 3 drinking water wells with a depth of 15, 40 and 72 meters and is not connected to the aqueduct. The ground floor is heated with a fireplace, the first floor was equipped with a pellet stove, the LPG cylinder is used only for the kitchen, but the connection to heating is also provided. Currently there is a disused diesel boiler.
The land that extends over the back of the building of about 1 hectare is planted with woods and a hundred olive trees, while in front of the house, on the other side of the road, the land, of about half a hectare, is cultivated with trees from fruit and vineyards. A small building has been built on this plot as an open garage
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