Renting a villa in Prato could prove to be the ideal solution for those who:

• want to stay next to one of the most important Italian cities of art;

• want to live in a town on human scale;

• are looking for an accommodation that grants both relaxation and privacy;

• do not want to renounce the most modern comforts (satellite TV, private car parking place, and so on);

• want to have some excursions among cultivated hills and unspoilt woods;

• love contemporary art.

That is just a part of what you can do if you rent a Tuscan luxury villa, either in Prato or in one of the six municipalities that compose its province (in strict alphabetical order: Cantagallo, Carmignano, Montemurlo, Poggio a Caiano, Vaiano and Vernio).

It is not by chance that the Medicis decided to build Villa Ambra, one of their most luxurious residences, in Poggio a Caiano. Nowadays tourists can still admire this wonderful villa, which Lorenzo the Magnificent commissioned to architect Giuliano Giamberti da Sangallo in the late 15th century. Moreover, the villa is the setting of the folkloric event "The Siege of the Villa", a sort of travel in time back to the Renaissance, when the dames coming from abroad stayed some days in the estate before their wedding with the members of the powerful family coming from Mugello.

Speaking about folkloric events, if you are staying in Prato between the end of August and mid-September, you cannot miss the historical pageant and the ostension of the "Sacra Cintola".