Rental Villa in Italy to rent - holiday lettings

The Lake of Garda is well known among simple citizens as well as famous people all over the world, for the beauty of the landscape itself and for the many historical buildings, famhouses or noble residences along the lake or on the hills surrounding it.
The Roccolo is among them, a beautiful former farmhouse overlooking a 18 holes golf club and the lake of Garda, totally and lovingly restored, preserving the old times flavour by keeping the original furniture and, where not possible, giving a modern and sophisticated design touch. The farmhouse is now given for holiday rentals, so that visitors from all over the world can enjoy a vacation in a place of immense suggestion.

Il Roccolo features also innovative solutions for eco-substainable use. It is served for power and heating by a big solar panel system, not visible to the guests, as it has been displayed on a service rural structure near to the main building.
The more, all the Roccolo areas have WI-FI central built connections, so tha ADSL is available at all times everywhere in the place.
Close to the house a natural springs supply 14° water to the structure and even more, developing small rivers in the proximity of the house, and two fountains, where crayfish are usual guess. The building is totally air-conditioned, as in renovating, the owners have cleverly used the natural fresh air coming form both mountains and lake and channelize it through conductors in the walls.
The Roccolo stands next to a Golf green, for use to the guests.

The holiday apartment, with its own terrace facing on the vineyard, is on the ground floor of the main building. The livingroom overlooks a golf club and the lake of Garda. It consists of two double roomed suites and a one roomed suite, each with private bath. The bigger suites have their own dining and relaxing separate spaces, with sofabeds for extra guests, and the one roomed suite is furnished with table and chairs too.
The apartment has also a large living room and kitchen corner for common use, well equipped and furnished, with fireplace.

The bedrooms are all doublebedded and tastefully furnished and decorated, with antique items, original ancestors paintings on the walls, wrought iron double beds, and display either cotto or antique wood parquet flooring.
Original wooden beamed ceilings give to the place the unique and true atmosphere of when the farmhouse had its normal rural use.
The building has preserved its natural Fort structure, with a courtyard that once was daily beated by carts bringing the hay from the cultivated fields around it.

Nowadays the consciousness of living in a genuine and uncontaminated environment has preserved the cultivation of the olives, giving an excellent quality extra virgin oil and vineyards with more than one species of grapes, red or white, delivering a high standard wine,The products are all on sale on the premises,

The country around the house has much to be described: the peculiar position of the plan, once not easily reachable, has preserved the fauna variety, also for the proximity of the woods, and many different plants and flowers. Most popular are the almond trees, the pomegranates and the small italian orchids, in beautiful colours and same scent of the more famous tropical ones,

The town of Toscolano Maderno, in the heart of the Alto Garda Bresciano Park, once used to be two different tiny villages, connected through a bridge. They age since the Romans and during the time have developed several skills, among them the industry of paper, with the presence of numerous paper mills. A specific itinerary through the antique paper mills can be fascinating, along the River Toscolano Valley. The paper industry is still totally alive and gives good satisfaction to the inhabitants.

The land can make itself recognizable and remembered also through its local products and cuisine. The Lake of Garda obviously characterize the local cooking strongly. Fish is the main ingredient of the cuisine, and carp, trout, coregone,, perch, pike, eel, and sardines are fished in Lake Garda. Another excellency is the D.O.P. extra virgin oil, the Lake Garda variety, delicious on both fish or meat recipes. Guided tours to the olive mills are available and recommended, some of them being very ancient and using same procedures as in old times.

Also excellent and tasty types of cheese, original 4 hours cooked meat recipes and obviously wine will be necessary to taste. The area has the "Strada dei Vini e Sapori del Garda" a food and wine route, where frequent stops of the visitors to the vineyards and the wine cellars, where is possible to take a sip of the famous excellent Garda Classico Groppello, Garda Classico Chiaretto, Rosso, Rosso Superiore, and Bianco wines, will make the vacation on the Lake, at the Roccolo, a superior cultural fascinating experience.