This place is something very special for us; we chose to marry here.
Villa Pasquini is a 300-year old, noble and quietly beautiful house; perfect for romantic slow-travelers and all gourmets or lovers of a genuine antique surrounding in good style.
This certainly is the place to go to when you want to be only half an hours drive away from Florence but still enjoy the tuscan landscape, biologically homemade foods and good wine at a real bargain price.
The driveway to the villa is a tuscan cypress alley, the old house standing tall in classic colours of siennese yellow with green shutters that open up on a lovely view of the Valdinievole valleys and Montecatini Alto up on the mountain, as well as the surrounding villages Massa, Cozzile and Buggiano.
If you care to go up there, prepare for fantastic postcard views.
Our wedding coach drive, which took us down from Massa to the villa via old stonewalled roads, with the inhabitants on the way wishing us luck all the way down, was an overwhelming experience.
Signor Pier Luigi and his sister Maria Cristina Innocenti personally took care of everything, all we needed was our papers ready. We felt extremely comfortable although marrying abroad, due to our extremely friendly hosts and their very personal care of their guests. They both speak excellent english and german as well.
We stayed for a week in our large wedding suite No. 1 with its canopy bed and ensuite bathroom complete with a frescoe on the wall and even a maids room to it... where my actual bridesmaids dressed themselves up and your own personal butler might sleep too.
We took the half-pension with a good strong (unusually so for Italy) breakfast and an excellent five-course evening meal every day and we very much enjoyed the biological house wine from the villas own grounds, but there is also a good choice of other tuscan wines on the list.
The wedding dinner consisted of quite amazing twelve... fine courses!
Signor Innocenti faxed the menue to us beforehand, we thought it was to choose from twelve different dishes until we realised what awaited us.

Villa Pasquini is a three storey hotel with 24 rooms, it has no elevator or air-conditioning but the original staircase leads you up to the large, antique rooms and an elegant restaurant with its own adjoining terrace from which you can watch newly wed couples coming up in their carriages to celebrate every other day, or just have a nice cool drink before dinner starts inside.
This would be the only drawback, that is, if you do not care for happy italian wedding guests on the lower terrace surrounding the villa.
We soon found out that the parties being held in the adjoining terrace pavillion with much cheerful singing and dancing lasted at most until midnight and did not really disturb us, though a change of music might be a good idea at some time, perhaps.
Our idea was to enjoy our meal and then go down the few kilometers to belle epoque Montecatini Terme (where Anita Loos, writer of "Gentlemen prefer blondes" used to relax in the roaring twenties) and have our coffee and grappa at the towns best cafe on those wedding party nights. Then return to the quiet house afterwards to sit a while in the garden chairs under palm trees seeing the lights of Florence in the distance.

We will keep returning to this house every year, we just love it!