The Swimming Pool and
the Park of the Millenary Olive Trees

The Parco degli Ulivi is a well-maintained and luxuriant olive grove, which grows at the Borgo, a fully renovated 17th-century rural centre, where the suites, rooms and appartements for Podere Montale guests are located.

The olive trees, over 2000, are over 1000 years old and are of the seggianese varietal, which is found exclusively in southern Tuscany.

These plants are authentic monuments: larger than average in size, they have a large, thick foliage that fills with olives during the summer. The trunk is impressive: time has forged its shape with infinite patience, creating veins, hollows, splits in the plant, which sometimes breaks into several parts.

The seggianese olive tree is a cultivar resistant to the low temperatures of the Amiata winter, which, given its distance from the Tyrrhenian Sea, often drops below zero degrees. The olive groves of Podere Montale spread between 450 and 700 metres above sea level.

The Podere Montale farm takes care of the olive trees it has inherited from past centuries, conscious of the immense natural heritage they represent: the olive trees are pruned maintaining their typical wild shape, with tall leafy crowns. Treatments are very limited, since thanks to the strong temperature range generated by the presence of Mount Amiata, the sterile and very windy conditions are not suitable for pathogenic organisms such as the dipteran, which generates the Bactrocera oleae disease.