The country cottages can be seen afar perched on a little hills in the middle of agricultural complex surrounded by fields with grazing horse and farm land. In the country cottages from the esplanade running along the walls there is a grand view of the Chianti hills glowing in the distance. It is surprising to discover beneath country cottages in Tuscany extraordinary italian gardens with potted plants and boxwood bordering smooth lawns laid out in geometrical patterns. The precise design and the lush green color of these compositions stand out against the gray-green olive groves. Past several flower beds bordering the winter garden of country cottages with arched-windows. The interior of the country cottages are made of variegated rough stones, is lenghthen by walls and pierced with a rusticated arches, also surmounted by brick merlons crowned with stones. In a country cottage, a fine wrought-iron gate opens into a lovely enclosed courtyard decorated with a herringbone-pattern brick pavement and marked by lines of gray stone. On the ground floor, the kitchen exhibits copper pots and iron pans in good repair from an earlier period and has a beautiful beamed ceiling dressed with a coloful variety of motifs The large wooden chest and tables and high-backed leather-covered chairs are reminescent of Renaissance times. Accros from the entrace through another crenellated wall lies the junction of the garden's two vine-covered pergolas; one of them resting on brick pillars, the other on simple wooden beams. The country cottages have kept the rustic appearance of farmhouses surronded by outbuildings and other dwellings but with italian villa conforts.