Casale Camalda is an ancient rural stone mansion on the Appennino Mountains between Florence and Arezzo, into the Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona and Campigna National Park. The farm is situated in a secluted and quiet spot among woods and streams and red deer, fallow deer, roe deer, wolves, wild boars, eagles, squirrels and many other wild animals that live freely in this large protected area.
Casale Camalda is near the historical Monastery of Camaldoli which can be also reached walking on 3 several comfortable and short paths through the forests. The hospitality is offered in restored independent flats and in one small detached stone house (Chestnut Drier, Stable and Barn), which were once rural annexes; all of them have kitchen, bathroom and private heating. The organic farm produce and sell directly fruits, jams and marmalades, honey, wine and olives.
English, German and French are spoken. The owner is also a Guide of the National Park and organises excursion and hikings to the wildest and most secluted spots of these forests and mountains; maps, leaflets and advices and assistance are provided for self-guided tours to the National Park and to the medioeval castles, romanic churches, hermitages and monasteries and the historical towns and villages of the Casentino Valley and the Tuscany.
Oenological present to whoever introduces him/herself reciting a poem from “I Canti Orfici” by Dino Campana, trekker and poet that sang these enchanting places.