Affittacamere Leonardo's Rooms Bed & Breakfast, Pontassieve (FI)  

Directions

BY CAR: motor-way from North:
Firenze Sud exit , direction to Pontassieve-Bagno a Ripoli, SP 34*, for 12 km.
Motor-way from South:
Incisa exit, SS 70*, direction to Pontassieve for km 17.
From Firenze City:
take direction to Arezzo, SS 67* or SP 70*
* the name of road
Another direction: SS 70 (Consuma) from/to Casentino - SP 34 from/to Firenze (Rosano way).

Take the direction to center of Pontassieve or railway station.
In railway station square there is Sonia Bar situated on the corner, in front of it there is a small street on the climb (Via Monzecchi), take it and turn on the right, that is Via Piave.
BY BUS: Autolinee F.lli Alterini - Reggello BY TRAIN: direction Firenze-Borgo S.

Lorenzo or Firenze-Arezzo; stop: Pontassieve
BY TRAIN: we are only 30 mt.

to railway station of Pontassieve
We are in Via Piave No.

7, the parallel road of train station road.
Our address is:
Leonardo's Rooms Locanda Nova
Via Piave No.

7
Pontassieve-Florence
PONTASSIEVE:
take the name from Ponte (bridge) that connect the Sieve that allowed the connection of Florence to the Sieve valley, the Casentino and Valdarno.

The strategic value of the position convinced the Florence Republic to build a huge fort, the S.Michele Arcangelo Castle that at the end of the XIV century became the administrative centre of the area.

Up to now there are still three of the old four original doors of the fort: at the south Filicaia door, west Fiorentina door and at east Orologio door.

In the centre of the old castle , in Vittorio Emanuele's place, there is the townhall, already Sansoni Trombetta palace (XVII-XIX century), with a fresco paint great hall of Ferdinando Folchi (1822-93) with famous heroine stories.

From the Orologio door that has the original characters of the fourteenth-century fortification starts the old merchant village that will arrive up to the spectacular Mediceo Bridge (1555) characterized by the contrast of the brickwork arches and the stone pilasters.

Pontassieve is a characteristic village in the middle of the typical sweet Tuscany hills: the cereal fields are alternated with the olive plants and vines and spread out there are hundreds of house farmers, castles, roman churches and flour mills.

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