ospitalita — Empoli · Toscana
In the hills near Empoli, where the Tuscan countryside climbs toward the Apennines, the Gherardelli family has spent more than twenty years building a style of hospitality that brings together Tuscan cooking — fresh pasta, ribollita, fiorentina cooked over the coals — with rooms overlooking the landscape. A place where the territory reaches the table before it even reaches the room.
Dario and Matteo Gherardelli run the agriturismo with the kind of continuity that only family management can build: more than twenty years of hospitality passed down from one generation to the next. The window onto the hillside landscape is no backdrop: it is the same view the Gherardellis live with every day, and the one that led them to build their story here.
From the veranda opens one of the longest views over the hills near Empoli: the ridges stretch out toward the Apennines, and the light shifts with the seasons without ever losing that quiet quality that makes you want to stay. This is where the restaurant extends dinner outdoors, with fiorentina cooked over the coals and the classic dishes of Tuscan tradition as a natural horizon.
The three rooms — Girasole, Iris, Margherita — are named after wildflowers and look out over the hillside landscape, each with a private bathroom, air conditioning and Wi-Fi. The property hosts celebrations and large groups, with outdoor spaces also accessible to guests with reduced mobility: a welcoming spirit that goes well beyond simply offering a place to stay, and one that has made Montemagnoli a point of reference for local families.
Tuscan cooking, a veranda looking out over the Apennines, and three rooms named after flowers: the page for Montemagnoli tells the whole story of what this corner of the Empoli hills has to offer.
