It sure looks beautiful in the photos. But its what you cant see that can hurt you. Literally. This farm has no air conditioning (which is not surprising for Italy), but it also has no fans or cooling of any kind (which is a little surprising) and no screens on the windows (which is very surprising). All of the above would be very inconvenient, but tolerable except the farm is also home to THOUSANDS of wasps (I do not exagerate the number).
In the first five minutes of walking into the oven hot room, we had to open the windows. Within minutes there were dozens of wasps in the room. Within an hour, hundreds. We complained of course.....How helpful were the managment team ?
Us: There are no fans or screens. Them: We did not say you would get fans or screens in our advertisement.
Us: But the wasps ? Them: You are in the country.

I was stung in bed by one which had nested behind the pillows (fortunately I am not allergic or I would be dead). We spent the trip... more