Florence is 10 minutes' drive, but Tuscan attractions are only a few steps away from ‘La Cappellina'. La Cappellina is at Grassina, on the hills south of Florence. It owes its name to the little church (opposite the B&B) which was the family chapel of Marchesi Medici Tornaquinci's villa, built in ‘500. In the year1000 the chapel was the parish church of St Jacopo a Celle. The chapel is still surrounded by centuries-old cypress trees.Nearby (1 km) you can in fact admire the villa of de' Medici, the Vecchietti Family's castle and the recently restored mysterious ‘Ninfeo' by Giambologna (1500), also known as ‘La Fata Morgana'. Castles and ancient churches (pieve) mark the surrounding landscape, including the S. Caterina d'Alessandria Oratory, showing frescos by Spinello Aretino. From here you get easily into Florence as well as to the heart of Chianti, like Greve (14 kms) centre of the Chianti trademark, and Impruneta (8 kms), home of the famous ‘cotto toscano'.