Agriturismo La Steccaia Alta, Civitella Paganico

Placed in a strategic position from where you could reach easily art cities, medieval towns, Tyrrhenian coast, “La Steccaia Alta”, our biological farm, it is along one of the most famous wine route of Maremma: Montecucco, Monteregio, Morellino di Scansano and Brunello di Montalcino.
Our farmhouse, placed on a hillside, is enclosed from a shady cypress avenue where you feel the effect of an excellent ventilation even during the warm summer days.
Every flat is totally furnished and it has a double room, a kitchen and a bathroom with a shower.
In our farm we cultivate saffron and we pack it in pistils. It is surely the most precious and expensive of spices. Pistil harvesting is done in autumn and it is quite industrious, in fact pistils must be picked by hand in the early morning, when the flower is still closed, careful not to ruin the precious pistil. To obtain 1 kg. (35, 28 oz) of the finished product, 120-150 thousand flowers are required.
It is extracted from crocus sativus, of the iridaceous family, contains from 3 to 5 pistils.
Saffron has many properties: it is an antioxidant, it has a high percentage of B1 and B2 vitamins that make it a good digestive; in the past many other properties were attributed to saffron (there are traces even in Egyptian papyri).