Coreglia Antelminelli Things To Do

If you’re after a lively nightlife and a traditional package holiday, Coreglia Antelminelli won’t suit you at all. It’s way off the beaten track, a delightful hideaway in one of Italy’s most beautiful regions, Tuscany. The setting is simply stunning and many holiday makers spend their time just wandering about looking at it and being in it. Pure relaxation with amazing scenery, beautiful surroundings!

 

Castelnuovo de Garfagnana is a gorgeous and ancient town complete with a stern, forbidding, heavily-fortified castle. Barga is another walled town - a highly picturesque reminder of the region’s violent past as well as home to shops, cafes and places to east as well as masses of fascinating historical buildings. 

 

The town’s an excellent base for exploring and, because much of the area is inaccessible any other way, you’ll probably want to hire a car. Head towards the mountains and explore Tuscany’s lovely countryside. You’ll drink in misty fields full of grapevines, rolling hills and shady blue-green olive groves before discovering the magnificent Parco Nationale delle Alpi Apuane, mountainous and dramatic. Or hit Lucca to experience an amazing ancient Roman town.

 

Coreglia Antelminelli, in true Tuscan tradition, is pure heaven if you’re a keen foodie. The town is packed with really good restaurants and cafes serving mouth watering local dishes. A Mediterranean diet of tomatoes, fish, pasta, olives, olive oil and fruit is supposed to be one of the healthiest there is and you’ll see a lot of elderly yet sprightly Tuscans around the place. So fill your boots!

 

This town is extremely quaint, full of pretty winding streets and ancient churches with plenty of delightfully quiet piazzas to sit and chill in. Shopping is fun, with lots of little shops packed to the ceilings with delicious smelling and looking local and regional goods.

 

Coreglia Antelminelli is home to an eccentric but cool little museum all about the ins, outs and history of the plaster figurine industry. No, don’t laugh! Really - the town was once famous for supplying plaster figurines of the Virgin Mary, Jesus and all manner of other religious and secular statuary across the whole of Italy. A fun place to get a break from the hot sun.

 

Drive over to the Giant's Cooking Pots and marvel at the massive, dramatic hollows created by retreating melt water at the end of the last ice age.

 

The coast isn’t far away, so you can treat yourself to a day or more lounging on the lovely beaches at Viareggio and Torre del Lago Puccini, once home to the composer Puccini.