Antica Pieve B&B was very excellent. We were given a very warm welcome after our long and tiring day. We would recommend Antica pieve without hesitation.

Denise and Frank

Beautiful Place. Beautiful Setting. Everything a tuscan holiday should be. but...we never saw the owners smile once. Nor did they talk to us or give us any adivce on where to go or what to do. Perhaps there was a language barrier but we did not have this problem anywhere else on our trip. The room was very very noisy with traffic.The air conditioner didnt really get the room cold at all. The room was lovely.The food was not very good and there was not alot of variety.
We would not recommend this place at all.

For ten days in August 2004, my boyfriend and I went on a holiday to Italy with his daughter (15) and niece (13). We spent 4 nights at the Antica Pieve, which proved to be the most wonderful, relaxing place to stay.

The Antica Pieve is a B&B on the outer edges of the Tuscan town of Tavarnelle. Tavarnelle is not a picturesque Tuscan hill-town, rather an "ordinary" Tuscan town for locals and the odd tourist. It's has a handful of restaurants (my recommendation would be the hectic but delicious La Vecchia Piazza, where we ate twice) and bars / cafes, with obligatory delectable Italian gelati! Tavarnelle is very handy for the highway between Florence and Sienna, and therefore a good base for visiting famous sites and towns in the region.

The Antica Pieve itself is wonderful. It's clearly been recently refurbished - the rooms are very simple, but spacious and very clean. There is secure parking for guests. There is a pool and sun terrace that are perfect for idling hours away while resting feet that are tired of site-seeing. Breakfast is buffet-style with local breads, cheeses and hams as well as a good cup of coffee. Dinner is also available if you want it, although we always tend to eat out on a night so didn't sample dinner, but the menus did sound very good.

Antica Pieve B&B was wonderful, we were made very welcome, it was very peaceful and relaxing, and I would thoroughly recommend it. I almost didn't want to write this review in case the Antica Pieve became too popular for me to get a reservation in the future, but I can't deny the owners their success - it would be extremely well-deserved.