Asti holiday villa rental, Fontanile with walking, log fire, jacuzzi/hot tub, sauna, disabled access, balcony/terrace, air con, internet

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Tenuta Contessa Chiara (villa)

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Spend your holiday at "Contessa Chiara" for guaranteed peace in a beautiful natural setting. Unwind from city, stress as you discover Piedmont's incredibly rich heritage of art and culture. Contessa Chiara is a luxurios countryhouse offering every comfort and service: the owner will receive you personally with a "welcome lunch or dinner", the fridge will be filled up with the first things (off course some bottle of our wine), the breakfast prepared, there is no charge for late arrival, daily maid service; we want you to feel like "at home" and make your holiday unforgettable.

Private big pool ideal for children tennis/soccer court, fantastic for a big family or a group of friends. Three Living areas (two with fireplace) the cellar with hometheatre and billiard , 2 fully equipped kitchens, 3 patios around the house assure privacy and space for everyone. The house has authentic and original furnishing with some modern touch. You have all around the best restaurants in Italy, the area is well known as "ITALY'S KITCHEN", and the best for white truffle from september to january. Also well known of course for wine (this is the best area with tuscany for wine products). The nearest cellars for wine degustation are within 5 minutes walking distance.

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The living

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The North West Italy / Piedmont/Lake Maggiore region

In contrast to many other Italian regions, Piemonte has retained a genuine rural culture. The local areas of Monferrato and Langhe are full of fantastic vineyards, stunning countryside, and beautiful little medieval hilltop villages, most crowned by splendid castles, a reminder of the days when Piemonte was the direct route of armies marching between Italy and France. Its territory is mainly hilly, beeing consistuted from undulates reliefs, and producing famous wines (Barbera, Gringnolino, Moscato and so on).
The rich heritage of its long history is evident in every village and town, where visitors can discover the art of architecture of successive historic eras. Architectural gems are scattered throughout the countryside.
A treasure trore of attractions to satisfy even the most demanding tourist.
Here you can sample local farm products and savour the wounders of traditional Piemontese cooking, complemented by excellent DOC wines produced in this area and meet the people of Piedmont whose outward reserve is blied by the unfailing warmth of their ospitality, unchainged over the centuries.

Asti / Fontanile area

"Contessa Chiara" is centrally located for a wide range on non-wine related day trips. Take your pick from shopping (antique markets, or the designer shops of Milan and Turin), history, culture, beauty, sea, mountains, lakes and sports. we have the alps for excellent hiking, the Ligurian Riviera with the famous resorts of Camogli and Portofino for seaside pleasures, the beautiful italian lakes and many local festivals full of pageantry, colour and history.
There is a famous verse in Carducci’s poetry about the exalted soil of Aleramo with its castle and vines - l’esultante di castella e vigne suol d’Aleramo -. These few words sum up the Monferrato, a historical and geographical area in Asti Province. Though the smallest in Piedmont, this province is one of the richest on the level of its wines and foods. It is an area of sweet rolling hills that are often embellished with villages, castles, and bell towers. To all this we can add its enormous patrimony of multicoloured vineyards that create an unequalled panorama. This spectacle of colours transforms itself from season to season in its different tones. This is “wine country” that is already known of the world over. It is here that spumanti brut is produced. Here in Canelli is where Italian spumante and Asti Spumante were invented. Asti produces light red wines and more full-bodied reds for aging. There are also white wines and distilled spirits, especially various types of grappa. In this fertile soil a number of crops grow. There are white truffles, red and yellow quadrato d’Asti or “Asti square” peppers as well as white, crunchy cardoons, the so-called “hunchback thistle.” Asti’s wines and characteristic products blend into the tastes of local dishes when used in the artful traditional cuisine. These include carne cruda battuta al coltello (thin strips of raw meat), tonno di coniglio (rabbit with tuna sauce), risotto al barbera (rice cooked in red wine), bagna cauda (an anchovy-based sauce used as a dip for raw and cooked vegetables), bollito reale (boiled meat), and, naturally, many deserts, especially the liqueur-flavoured amaretti di Mombaruzzo. The Asti area has a good number of those castles that Carducci wrote about. There are castles at Piea and San Martino Alfieri with its splendid nineteenth-century construction. There are the castle in Castell’Alfero and Montiglio. The Costigliole castle was once the residence of the Countess of Castiglione, but is now the home of an international school of Italian cooking and of the Cultural Park of the Grinzane Cavour Award.The Cisterna castle houses the Museo di Arti e Mestieri di un Tempo, a traditional crafts museum that reconstructs workshops and activities that are now in disuse.
Fontanile is a peacefull village with 650 residents,
25 km from Alessandria
36 km from Asti
There is a grocery and a "bar" and a postoffice
Mombaruzzo 3km
Nizza Monferrato 9 km
Acqui Terme 14 km
Asti 34 km
Alessandria 25 km
Genova 100 km

How to get there

From most of the Eurpean Airports to:

Milano Linate
Milano Malpensa
Turin
Genova
Bergamo

Activities near Asti

Facilities

Further details indoors:
Home theater
satellite tv
internet
snooker
full air conditioning/heating
car available on request
moto available on request
cook available un request

Further details outdoors:
Swimming pool(20mt x 10)
Poolhouse: fully equipped kitchen, patio with bbq and dining area, 2 changerooms each with shower/wc
private tennis court, ping pong table
sauna ,
24.000 m2 of garden,
parking inside the property (fenced)
bbq
kitchen garden - our guests can pick fresh strawberrys and vegetables(tomatoes, carrots, peas, beans, zucchine, eggplants and more) and fresh eggs from our henns

Further details

Swimming pool from april/may to september
english, german and french speaking owner
cook available on request
daily maid service

Conditions

30%of rental fee due at time of booking (not refundable)
deposit required

Rental rates

Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
	23 May 09	20 Jun 09	5300£ 4,818	0-	0-	1 Week
	20 Jun 09	4 Jul 09	6400£ 5,818	0-	0-	1 Week
	4 Jul 09	1 Aug 09	6750£ 6,136	0-	0-	1 Week
	1 Aug 09	5 Sep 09	8000£ 7,273	0-	0-	1 Week
	5 Sep 09	26 Sep 09	6400£ 5,818	0-	0-	1 Week
	26 Sep 09	31 Oct 09	5300£ 4,818	0-	0-	1 Week
	31 Oct 09	19 Dec 09	4500£ 4,091	0-	0-	1 Week
	19 Dec 09	9 Jan 10	6500£ 5,909	0-	0-	1 Week

NB: Prices may be subject to change at the advertiser's discretion.

Price includes everything except air condition and heating

welcome diner, filled fridge and welcome basket, some bottle of our wine, weekly change of bedlinen, mid-week change of towels, pool towels

30% of rental fee due at time of booking (not refundable)

a refundable breakages deposit of Euro 1.500 required on arrival, to be refunded

within 2 weeks of departure

optional available:

car

moto

cook

Guestbook for Tenuta Contessa Chiara

It was our first time in Piemonte and "Contessa Chiara" was the best choice! Everything was perfect.We already booked for next year.
J. and M.Wagner, Germany

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Chère Petra,

Ces quelques mots pour vous témoigner de notre coup de cœur pour votre si belle demeure la CONTESSA CHIARA.
Ce fût, pour nous, un séjour inoubliable, tant au niveau de l'accueil reçu dès notre arrivés, de votre maison si belle et spacieuse,
de ces paysages magnifiques que de tous ces mêts savoureux que vous nous avez faits découvrir.
Dans nos vies et dans nos cœurs il y a eu un avant et un après CONTESSA CHIARA et jamais nous n'oublierons
ce merveilleux séjour chez vous.
Et jamais nous ne vous oublierons, Chère Petra.
Et nous vous disons, non pas adieu, mais bien, à très bientôt, parce que c'est sur, nous reviendrons !

Très sincèrement et avec toute notre affection,

Catherine et Thierry Légat
Belgique.

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« L’alchimie parfaite !
Un accueil personnalisé, sympathique et familial ;
Une maison spacieuse, lumineuse, comfortable, décorée avec soin et personnalité ;
Un jardin bien entretenu et reposant ;
Un paysage merveilleux et poétique ;
Une infrastructure sportive de qualité pour petits et grands ;
Un plus : une initiation à la gastronomie savoureuse et authentique du pays, …

Nous sommes toujours sous le charme. C’est certain, nous reviendrons goûter à cette magie !

Dominique et Olivier Pirotte et leurs enfants » Belgique


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Dear Petra,

My English is much too poor to thank you as you deserve it.
Nothing could have been more perfect than your wonderful villa for our company seminar. The 12 of us were absolutely happy with your welcome, your hospitability, your availability at all times (from early in the morning till late at night, sometimes almost round the clock...). The nice rooms, refreshing swimming pool, big garden have all witnessed our entire satisfaction!
We were delighted by your delicious Italian cooking, always accompanied by excellent wines. And, last but not least, your grappa was always there at the right time!

We all wish to thank you very much for this nice stay we won't forget!

Kinds regards,

Deli XL Team
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Dear Petra,

This has really been an exeptional week for us all to remember. With the warmest welcoming and everything to make us feel home.
We all enjoyed the magnificient tenniscourt. Also the perfect pool with the poolhouse and the sauna offcourse, which made our finnish midsummer "juhannus" perfect with the "vinta" of birchtree.
Petra, you are an incredible host, made us feel the best guests ever.
Looking forward to meet you again and longing for the excellent care that Perla took of us.
See you soon!

Annakaija, Anita, Antti, Juha, Kati, Lauri, Teuvo, Tina and kids (Finnland) June 2008

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Dearest Petra,
Well - isn't incredible what comes from the Christmas gift of a cookbook called "autumn in Piedmont"?!! This is how we discovered "Contessa Chiara"...but really we discovered "Contessa Petra"!
You showed us great warmth, an international approach to hospitality -shared your lovely son Matteo, your soft and cool garden, your Italian "grace de table", and were unfailingly generous.
We will back for "an Autumn in Piedmont" and look forward to sharing any more meals, good conversations and time in the kitchen and table.
Kerry G., Andrew M., Lilly and LouisM. - Australia June 2008

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Perla & Petra,

Thank you for everything, or as we say in Irish, "Go reibh mile maith agaibh go lear" !
This is the first house of 7 we have stayed in over the last 5 years, where we would all gladly return.
Thank you for giving us a big piece of Paradise, we will treasure our memories of "Contessa Chiara" always.
Chris C.+ Michael K., Ireland July 2008

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Dear Petra,

once again we had a wonderful time here. We came at Christmas and enjpoyed a cosy atmosphere, warm fires and lovely Christmastree. Our summer stay was very different mainly outside and by the pool.
Perla made us feel very welcome and is a beautiful cook. Thank you
Amber, Eren, Callum, Esme and Teddy M., England August 2008

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Dear Petra,

we would thank you for the great time we had here. It was our first time in Piemonte, and we are really amazed by your place and the surounding area. House,and Interiors are really beautiful and done with taste and the views for the nearby villages are breathtaking. Also we really appreciate your hospitality and taking care while we stay. This place is so quiet and refreshing, so we would hopefully looking for coming back soon.
Pavel on behalf og whole Polarrose Team-Sweden May/June 2009

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Dear Petra and Alessandro,

We had a wonderful time here at beautiful "Contessa Chiara". Coming into the house, our family had the same "Wow" experience that we had, andf with the Pool they were even more pleased. We really enjoyed having everybody stay here, in the beautiful bedrooms with their own bathroom, and with Perla taking great care of us. She is a treasure as I am sure you know! Thank you for your wonderful hospitality - it makes us want to come back to Piemonte even more! Arrivederci. Anrea, Tjarko, Mara and Brynn H. -USA- August 2009

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