This is how the enchanting evenings of Alexandra Loft come to life in the magical setting of Tenuta La Striscia. There are three different places to spend the evening: it all begins with the aperitif delicious sandwiches, accompanied by live music and a full-bodied glass of wine, or by refreshing cocktails to be savoured in the gardens.
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The Park can be visited, approximately 700 kilometres of trails, with pleasant excursions one can do on foot, by using mountain bike, by e-bike, on horseback. In winter we might need snowshoes, cross-country or hiking skis, and ‘fat bikes’ (bicycles with widened wheels, to deal with snow and mud).
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The restaurant is located in a building which was designed by Giorgio Vasari. It was created in the spaces where the ancient salt customs were and it succeeded right from the very start in combining the history of the city of Arezzo with the simplicity of the culinary traditions of its people, the restaurant soon acquired that prestige and fame that was confirmed over time.
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We are welcomed by Francesca, the young chef and owner of the restaurant, who after graduating in Education and Training, totally changed her life, choosing to follow her greatest love: cooking and good food, handed down by grandmother Beppina and her mother.
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As for her work, in addition to events and ceremonies, the Casentino artist promotes family photography and souvenir photos in her studio, “in a world where one is overwhelmed with images without retaining one”. The press is a perfect example of this and I, is absolute testimony – and I, as an old-fashioned publisher, fully agree.
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The Centre is structured as an educational environment and a training space open to people of all ages, from different backgrounds and cultures. It’s a place to develop one’s sociability and exercise one’s creativity, participating in the proposed activities and enjoying this meeting place every day.The activities are very diverse in order to satisfy all different interests and needs, both for young and elderly people with whom the centre also collaborates through an active generational exchange.
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The Club Il Principe disco has had a facelift since and there are now two rooms. The restaurant is open for two Fridays a month and every Saturday.
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Jutta was born in Coblenz in the Rhineland in Germany during the War, and went to study art and design in Dusseldorf. She had always dreamed of leaving Germany to travel, and spent a year abroad studying and working in Rome. When, after 6 years of art school, the possibility to spend a period in South Africa working for a textile company presented itself, the young Jutta jumped at the opportunity.
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Founded in July of 1937 as a cooperative of fourteen local winemakers who banded together to facilitate both the production and the sales of their wines. Vecchia Cantina bottled its first wine in 1940 during the war. After the difficult war years, in the 1950’s and the reorganization of the lands, the Vecchia Cantina acted as a driving force for wine production in the area, a role that they cover to this day with the over 400 member vineyard owners and over a thousand hectares of vineyards producing around seven million bottles of wine annually.
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The oldest part of the house, the central tower, goes back to the 15th century, its original incarnation being a watchtower protecting Tuscany’s flank with Papal Umbria. It became a house when two wings to the left and right of the tower were added in 1771 by the Tommasi family, whose coat of arms adorns a large stone set into the wall above the main door.
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And if you’re in the mood for meat, this is where you have to have dinner! The meat menu offers a choice of top quality, with types from all over the world, such as Japanese Kobe and Irish Angus. The room has special refrigerators for maturing, thanks to which cuts are subjected to a process of minimum 30 days before being ready for consumption.
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