Il Castello di Romena si trova in Toscana nella zona del Casentino

When talking about Tuscany the greatest risk is to repeat certain basic, circularly eternal concepts, such as "art”, “history”, “culture”, natural beauty”.

For us who live and breathe the region every day, all this belongs to the daily bread of the soulWe just have to lift our heads from our thoughts and we see it everywhere. In cities, on mountains, in the countryside, in front of the sea, lakes, rivers, everywhere, we can admire civil and religious monuments.

Come across architectural masterpieces, here with us, it's normal. And among these there are not only buildings or churches, but also villas and castles endless, delicious fruits of our great medieval and Renaissance centuries, but not only.

The most beautiful castles in Tuscany inhabited by ghosts

THE most important Tuscan castles they are cloaked in suggestions also thanks to the ghosts that infest them, as per classic, unfailing tradition. This is the case of the superb Brolio Castle, in Gaiole in Chianti - started in the 11th century and finished in the second half of the 19th century - built in medieval and neo-Gothic style, and haunted by the ghost of the severe Iron Baron, in the century, Bettino Ricasoli, Mayor of Florence and second Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy, after Cavour. Or the case of the Castle of the Counts Guidi, in Poppi, in Casentino, of which he would also have been partly responsible Arnolfo di Cambio. Here the ghost of the  the terrible and fascinating Countess Matelda - who used to kill her lovers after intercourse by making them fall from a trapdoor - still looks out of the windows at night, beautiful, dressed in white, to attract new unfortunate young men into her shameful game.

And what about the ghost of Bianca Maria Aloisia Malaspina, in Malaspina Castle, in Fosdinovo, in the province of Massa Carrara? A poor woman locked up alive and left to starve by her family, angry at her elopement?

Beautiful Tuscan villas haunted by ghosts

But ghosts are not lacking even in the beautiful Renaissance villas which is dotted throughout Tuscany. There is one, quite benevolent, it seems, in the superb Medici Villa of Cafaggiolo, that of Dianora di Toledo, cousin of the more famous Eleonora, killed by her husband Pietro de' Medici. While the ghost of Lucida Mansi, in Villa Mansi - one of the most famous villas in Lucca of the 15th century -, is rather malevolent, in accordance with the personality of the woman who, obsessed with her beauty - also a praying mantis in the style of Countess Matelda of Poppi -  it is said he sold his soul to the devil.

Villas in Tuscany: for stays amidst history and beauty

Besides, haunted or not, the passion for holidays, that is, for luxurious stays in villas, is ancient. Carlo Goldoni, eager to spend his holidays, made those around famous Livorno, but there are some very beautiful and important ones in the Pisan, In the Florentine, in the Lucca, in the'Arezzo, In the MugelloEverywhere in Tuscany, there are villas and castles to visit, to be savored, to be loved. Because, beyond the more or less brutal human stories that made them famous, it is their classic beauty which makes them eternal.