A large number of extremely interesting sites are within easy reach of the Casa Olivo farm holidays. In half an hour, guests can visit the lovely seaside village of Castiglione della Pescaia and the magnificent Punta Ala bay nearby.
The Diaccia Botrona Natural Reserve is a humid area and is one of most important in Europe. It spreads for about 70 hectares between Castiglione della Pescaia and Grosseto, towards the sea is limited by pine-forest. It's what remains of the ancient Lake Prile that used to take up about 50 square Km. and was reclaimed by land fill in the middle of nineteenth century. Now is a protected area that needs to be brought aut and preserved as it's the habitat of many birds, migrators and not, that altenate all year round. In summer, there are splendid boat trips, from Castiglione della Pescaia or the Argentario peninsula, to the Tuscan Archipelago National Park and the islands of Giglio, Giannutri, Elba and Pianosa. Montalcino and its renowned Brunello vineyards are 20 minutes away. Or guests can visit Montepulciano, Amiata Mount, this extinct volcano, Pienza and the lovely Val d'Orcia and Sant'Antimo Abbey, San Galgano Abbey.

Other marvellous itineraries will enable guests to discover the Etruscans: the city of Roselle (are 10 minutes away), also with later Roman remains and an attractive amphitheatre, the Museo Nazionale Etrusco in Grosseto, and the necropolises of Sovana, Vulci, Tarquinia, Vetulonia and Populonia. Other itineraries: Pitigliano and Vie Cave, Scansano, Magliano in Tuscany and San Bruzio Romanic Church. Roselle, one of the main Etruscan towns, is situaded in the middle of a large archaeological area that includes ruins that belong to the Etruscan period, but has well Roman and Mediaeval remains. It was founded in the eight century B.C. and had its largest development in the following century. The celebrated thermal baths at Saturnia are 40 minutes away.
There are other attractive spas at Bagno Vignoni and Bagni San Filippo, as well as natural spas in the Valle del Farma and at Petriolo Thermal Baths and Ardenghesca Abbey. Other "must-see" places are Siena, Florence, Arezzo, Massa Marittima, San Gimignano and Volterra, and of course the Maremma natural park and the WWF nature reserves at Orbetello and Capalbio. The Natural Park of Maremma takes up the southern part of the Commune of Grosseto's coast. Delightful and charming, it offers an uncontaminated and natural setting, which is often wild and rich of different ecosystems. Its territory can be divided in an area situated north of the river Ombrone, la Padule della Trappola, and an area south of the same river, whose caracteristic are the Mountains of Uccellina and very beautiful San Rabano Abbey. The firs area which is flat and has marches, water pools, littoral dunes and scarce vegetation, in its proximity you can see, especially in winter, a lot of aquatic birds, cattle amd wild horses of the Maremma. The Mountains' vegetation it's mainly made up of Mediterranean bush, where you can find wild boars, fallow deer, roe deer, porcupines and foxes.