The real Tuscany starts outside your door.

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The village gave me a name.

For eleven years I dreamed of Tuscany. Two years ago we packed up and moved to Riparbella — spontaneous, without preparation, without a plan.

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Mario il Ollandese

— what the village renamed me

The village adopted us as family. And because no one could pronounce my Dutch name, they renamed me: Mario il Ollandese.

Casa Mario is our gift — a way to share this village with anyone who wants to experience it the way we live it.

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