Biking, hiking, private beach access, horseback riding, home-cooked
meals, homegrown products, breakfast, dinner.

Although most of our guests prefer to spend the majority of their time
on the farm we highly recommend visiting and learning about the
history and culture of Tuscany. Tenuta San Carlo's central location
provides easy access to the best of Tuscany's natural environment and
surrounding towns and cities.
Accessible by train and by bus from Grosseto, Florence and Rome are
only two hours away from Tenuta San Carlo. Florence is a historical
center for the Italian arts, and home of the Uffizi gallery, il ponte
vecchio, il Duomo di Firenze, and the David. Rome is Italy’s capital,
and is as much a center for the arts as Florence. Among some of the
most well known cultural treasures found in Rome are St. Peters,
Castello Sant’Angelo, the coliseum, the forum, Piazza Navona, the
Tiber Island, the Circus Maximus, and many others.
Siena is located in the hills of Tuscany forty-five minutes from
Tenuta San Carlo and is accessible by bus from Grosseto. It’s one of
Tuscany’s smaller historical landmarks, and is home to il Palio. Pisa,
known for its leaning tower of Pisa, is two hours away from Tenuta San
Carlo and is accessible by train from Grosseto. Both Siena and Pisa
are small enough that they can be adequately visited in a day’s time.
Grosseto is the central city of Maremma, capital of the province, with
seventy thousand inhabitants and a busy market for agricultural
products and livestock. The old town is still entirely surrounded by
its hexagonal shaped walls and ramparts, built by Francesco I and
Ferdinando I de Medici. Of particular interest are the Duomo, the
market every Thursday morning just outside the walls of the old town,
and the archeological museum, which houses a great number of
outstanding Etruscan and Roman artifacts. Most the resources available
in a medium sized city can be found in Grosseto, including
entertainment, shopping, banks, and hospitals. Grosseto is also a
major train and bus intersection from which most major Italian cities
can be reached.
Marina and Principina are smaller beach towns designed to accommodate
beachgoers during the summer months. They host night street markets
and small amusement park entertainment. All beach supplies and
delicious ice cream shops can be found in both. Marina is slightly
bigger with its new port and boardwalk by the beach and therefore has
a wider selection of restaurants, bars, and small shops, but
Principina is, because of its smaller size, sometimes more pleasant
for a quiet night stroll along the beach.
Besides these two nearby beach towns, Castiglione della Pescaia, Punta
Ala, Porto Santo Stefano, and Porto Ercole are all within a half
hour's drive along the coast. From these other towns ferries leave
daily for the islands of Giglio and Elba.
Other smaller sites worth looking into around Tenuta San Carlo are the
thermal baths of Saturnia, the Etruscan ruins in the smaller hill-side
towns of Tuscany especially Roselle, the Uccellina Park surrounding
Tenuta San Carlo, and more specifically La Boca dell'Ombrone (the
mouth of the Ombrone river where the river meets the ocean) located
four or five kilometers from Tenuta San Carlo toward La Trappola along
the beach.