The Farm

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Farmhouse La Topaia

The heart of the farm is the hill on which the Villa stands. In ancient times (13th-14th centuries) the villa was the only existing building on the farm.

Only much later, in the 19th century, would a large farmhouse be added to this ancient nucleus, and then later the stable, barn and loggia.

A long and careful renovation has helped to breathe new life into the farm, turning the spaces no longer needed for farming into tourist accommodation.
The management is almost solely family-run, with Matteo and Giulia personally overseeing the farm work and reception
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The Valley of Agriturismo La Topaia

Agriturismo La Topaia stands on a hillock overlooking a small valley in which cultivated fields and large wooded areas alternate harmoniously, and is ideal for a regenerating vacation in the green and tranquility
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Excursions & Sports

Our location in the heart of Mugello, at the foot of the Tuscan Apennines, offers an exceptional window on a fascinating glimpse of the Tuscan countryside, punctuated on the right by the ancient Romanesque parish church of San Giovanni Maggiore and on the left by the imposing Villa di Corte dei Marchesi Frescobaldi with its century-old park.


There is no shortage of shopping opportunities, sports facilities and nature hiking trails in the area
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Farm

Agriturismo La Topaia reflects the typical conformation of ancient Tuscan farms: in a dominant position, on the top of a small hill, the buildings used for living and working; all around, sloping, the cultivated fields.


Merlot grapes, sunflower wheat and hemp are produced on our farm, following the rotations that ancient customs suggest. Cultivation is conducted according to the methods of integrated pest management (whose regulations are recognized by the Region of Tuscany), that is, with a type of processing careful to reduce the use of chemicals and in any case preferring selective preparations with low environmental impact.
We then take great care of the family garden for the production of fresh vegetables and herbs that we gladly share with our guests. A separate discourse deserves our small orchard, in which we grow peaches, pears and other seasonal fruits in a completely natural way, delicious as fresh produce and for the packaging of cakes and other delicacies, which guests can enjoy by having breakfast with us
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Hemp

Since 2013, driven by the desire to rediscover the ancient traditions of hemp cultivation in our countryside of Mugello, at the foot of the Apennines, in the province of Florence.


We started growing hemp for food uses when interest in hemp farming was very low, and over the years we have learned the myriad secrets of growing this age-old plant and the benefits it brings to our daily diet.
All our products are processed, from planting to harvesting, strictly by hand, to keep the original characteristics of the plant intact. Our hemp grows in the hills of Mugello, at the foot of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, surrounded by vineyards and wheat fields
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Mugello bread, merlot grapes, seasonal vegetables and fruits

The Agriturismo La Topaia farm joins the "pane del Mugello" project, a consortium of entrepreneurs (farmers, millers and bakers) who through a carefully monitored and certified supply chain produce wheat that is stone ground in ancient water mills and then transformed into bread using the natural leavening method and baking in a wood-fired oven.


The result is a typical Tuscan bread with an amber color, compact and fragrant, which keeps fresh for several days and once stale is the perfect protagonist of traditional dishes of the famous Tuscan and Mugello "cucina povera": ribollita, panzanella, pappa al pomodoro just to name a few simple delicacies
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Video

During the summer, our guests can enjoy the large outdoor swimming pool. The farm has an extension of 36 hectares cultivated mainly with cereals and vineyard. It is possible for guests to taste and buy farm products
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Dino Campana and Sibilla Aleramo

At Agriturismo La Topaia, the tradition of current agritourism hospitality is ennobled by an excellent literary precedent. In fact, La Topaia is renowned for having seen the birth of love between feminist writer Sibilla Aleramo (born Rina Faccio, 1876-1960) and Dino Campana (1885-1932), one of the most significant Italian poets of the 20th century, author of the "Orphic Songs." At the time of the events, in the summer of 1916, Sibilla Aleramo was at Agriturismo La Topaia as a guest of Maria and Julien Luchaire (1876-1958), a French intellectual and politician who in 1907 had founded the Institut Français de Florence, one of the most prestigious French-speaking institutions in Italy. An isolated and outcast "mad" poet, solitary and reviled, Dino Campana was a native of Marradi in Tuscan Romagna, and with Mugello he had a strongly conflicting relationship: yet this land, and this nature, leave deep traces in his soul and in his pages: "...there is beautiful vegetation, the deep blue of the sky meets the Tuscan light morning and evening on the bangs of the mountains. The river is beautiful...." The Mountain Community of Mugello has produced the interesting booklet "A piedi con Dino Campana," which retells some of the itineraries among our mountains he described in diaries or correspondence. The passionate and tumultuous relationship between Campana and Aleramo was portrayed a few years ago in the film "Un viaggio chiamato amore" by Michele Placido, starring Stefano Accorsi and Laura Morante, based on the epistolary between the two protagonists of the story
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"... Tonight is the last of this loneliness at the Topaia. (Those blessed Luchaire, had I known they were so late in coming back! ... But one must not wish them ill: without this vacation in their house, who knows when we would have found each other, you and I)..."


Sibilla Aleramo

Agriturismo La Topaia, Borgo San Lorenzo- Wednesday evening [August 9, 1916]

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