Podere Marcampo
…few kilometers away from Volterra
…few kilometers away from Volterra
Podere Marcampo is situated in a strategic location to visit the cultural heart of Tuscany.
ADDRESS
Loc. San Cipriano,
Pod. Marcampo, 30
56048 Volterra (PI)
GPS: 43.4185109,10.830164
Distances from nearby cities
Livorno: 55 Km
Firenze: 70 Km
Lucca:70 Km
Siena: 60 Km
San Gimignano: 35 Km
Pisa: 60 Km
Massa Marittima: 65 Km
Cecina Mare: 30 Km
Baratti-Populonia: 70 Km
How to find us
FIRENZE AEROPORTO
About driving direction from Florence airport, follow the blue signs for the freeway FI-PI-LI (Firenze-Pisa-Livorno) following direction Pisa. Take the exit in PONTEDERA. When out the freeway you can follow direction Volterra. It will then take 45 minutes. We are located about 4 km (2.5 miles) before the town on the right side, you will find our big brown road sign “Agriturismo Podere Marcampo, Wine Shop” and you can enter the dirt road until you get to our house.
FIRENZE CENTRO
Take the no toll highway towards Siena and then take the exit in “Colle Val d’Elsa SUD” and always follow direction Volterra on the SS 68 until you get into the town (it is well indicated). Then, from the town of Volterra, stay along the walls taking the direction of Pisa on the SP15, Strada Provinciale Volterrana (be careful, follow direction Pisa from Volterra, never before the town). After more or less 2.5 miles on the left side you will find a big road saying “Agriturismo Podere Marcampo”. You turn left and follow the dirt road for 800meters until you get in the Agriturismo. There are wood road signs also along the dirt road.
SIENA
The best way to get here from Siena is to take the no toll highway towards Firenze and then take the exit in “Colle Val d’Elsa SUD” and always follow direction Volterra on the SS 68 until you get into the town (it is well indicated). Then, from the town of Volterra, stay along the walls taking the direction of Pisa on the SP15, Strada Provinciale Volterrana (be careful, follow direction Pisa from Volterra, never before the town). After more or less 2.5 miles on the left side you will find a big road saying “Agriturismo Podere Marcampo”. You turn left and follow the dirt road for 800meters until you get in the Agriturismo. There are wood road signs also along the dirt road.
MILANO
Follow direction Parma/ La Spezia on the highway A1, then take the exit from the A12 Autostrada in PISA AEROPORTO and you will be already merged into the no toll highway FI-PI-LI (Firenze-Pisa-Livorno) and you will have to follow direction Firenze. Be careful, do not take the exit in Ponsacco where you find the indication to Volterra, you have to exit at the next one PONTEDERA, from there it is easier to come. When out the freeway you can follow direction Volterra. We are located about 4 km (2.5 miles) before the town on the right side, you will find our big brown road sign “Agriturismo Podere Marcampo”) and you can enter the dirt road until you get to our house
ROMA
Follow direction Firenze on the highway A1 and take the exit in Valdichiana/Bettolle: then follow Siena till you get to it and then follow Firenze. Take the exit in “Colle Val d’Elsa SUD” and always follow direction Volterra on the SS 68 until you get into the town (it is well indicated). Then, from the town of Volterra, stay along the walls taking the direction of Pisa on the SP15, Strada Provinciale Volterrana (be careful, follow direction Pisa from Volterra, never before the town). After more or less 2.5 miles on the left side you will find a big road saying “Agriturismo Podere Marcampo”. You turn left and follow the dirt road for 800meters until you get in the Agriturismo. There are wood road signs also along the dirt road.
LUCCA
About driving directions from Lucca, my suggestion is to follow the 439 towards Pontedera all the time and when you will be approaching this town you will find also Volterra directions. Follow them, we are only 4,5km before the town on the right. My suggestion is to insert Volterra and you’ll see our road sign saying Agriturismo Podere Marcampo, Wine Shop. You enter the dirt road until you get here.
PISA
from Pisa follow the blue signs for the freeway FI-PI-LI (Firenze-Pisa-Livorno) and you will have to follow direction Florence (FIRENZE). Take the exit in PONTEDERA (be careful do not take Ponsacco where you see Volterra sign, but the next one). When out the freeway you can follow direction Volterra. It will take 45 minutes. We are located about 4 km (2.5 miles) before the town on the right side, you will find our big brown road sign “Agriturismo Podere Marcampo, Wine Shop” and you can enter the dirt road until you get to our house.
GENOVA/LA SPEZIA
take the exit from the A12 Autostrada in PISA AEROPORTO and you will be already merged into the no toll highway FI-PI-LI (Firenze-Pisa-Livorno) and you will have to follow direction Firenze. Be careful, do not take the exit in Ponsacco where you find the indication to Volterra, you have to exit at the next one PONTEDERA, from there it is easier to come. When out the freeway you can follow direction Volterra. We are located about 4 km (2.5 miles) before the town on the right side, you will find our big brown road sign “Agriturismo Podere Marcampo”) and you can enter the dirt road until you get to our house
What to visit nearby?
Volterra, famous for the extraction and processing of alabaster, preserves a remarkable historical center of Etruscan origin (for example the Porta all’Arco, the Porta Diana, the Acropolis and most of the walls), with Roman ruins (among them the amphitheater) and medieval buildings such as the Cathedral, the Medici Fortress and the Palazzo dei Priori.
Siena is universally known for its historical, artistic ad natural heritage and for the style of medieval urban furnishings, as well as for the famous Palio. In 1995 its historic center was included by UNESCO in the World Heritage Sites.
Florence is considered to be original heart of the Renaissance and it is universally recognized as one of the cradles of art and architecture, and renowned as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, thanks to its many monuments and museums.
San Gimignano, despite some twentieth-century restorations, has remained mostly intact in its 14th century appearance. Thanks to the traditional medieval architecture of its historical center it has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Livorno is a real open-air museum that preserves the charm and the structure set by the Medici at the turn of the 15th and 17th centuries, with its ramparts that form an elegant and powerful pentagon and with its fortifications surrounded by ditches and courses of water.
Among the most important monuments of Pisa there is, of course, the famous Piazza del Duomo, called Piazza dei Miracoli, with the Cathedral built between 1063 and 1118 in Pisan Romanesque style and the famous Leaning Tower, today one of the most famous Italian monuments in the world.