Cockery time

.. let come to see how do we cook here.. Osteria La Gramola's cooking school

We go around

..there are here so many small-unknown places to see and I can bring you there.. Here you are what nice turn

Farmhouse

.. here there are these beautiful places in order to pass the vacations...

The newspaper of Siena

Here you are what it happens in Siena

Our adresses

Many many beatiful pages to see and also my webring..

Review Prints

The press speaks about oste meraviglioso..

Hi guys, my name is Mario, the fabulous inn-keeper, I live in Monteriggioni, do you know where it is? It is close to Siena, just in the middle of Tuscany. Here we people are all friends, the weather is good, we cook as it should be, we eat and drink as it was once upon a time, and we also go often around for pleasant walks together ..

WHERE IT IS Siena is such a treasure of beauties that it is difficult to choose one. But, at least to me, there is one thing, which is really special and unique, a part from being enchanting: it is Campo Square.

FRIENDS On nineteenth of March is Saint Joseph's day, the holiday of all the fathers and the carpenters. In Siena the nineteenth is the last day to eat fritters. Since a month, or more, you can find street-shops selling rice's fritters just ready and hot.

WE COOK In winter we use to eat very often, every lunch and every dinner, the Bread soup and the ribollita

WE EAT In my house we use to have the same things we had when I was a boy, in winter, during the olive harvesting, we used to have polenta.

ONCE UPON A TIME Festival were organised in the villages and especially uring the nice seasons it was easy to go there because we moved around by feet. But if there was something left to do in the fields we had to stay home.

eating stuff ..if you want tuscan food... (se volete mangiare toscano..) (listen to Mario)

looking at stuff ..many nice things for the house.. (..tante belle cose da tenere in casa..) (listen to Mario)

Here you can find my webring

Festivals' bag

....if you are invited, you can do as I do: I don't like to go with empty hands.... Happy Easter Basket When the bells were rung from the bells ringer, the evening of the Good Friday they were " tied ", and nobody touched them until midnight of the Easter night, when they restarted to play and to listen to them it was a pleasure. EUR 51,12 USD 62,67

Buy safety on Ostemeraviglioso with:

Azienda Agricola La Selva

If you like to know a winery where the wine is made as we used in the good old days, then you can come to Montespertoli, from my friend George.. La Selva's Products

Best stuff

.we weren't used to eat sweets every day, but we had them only during holidays, such as Christmas, Easter, Carnival and All Saints' day Easter Chocolate Bell When I was a boy the bells were rung from the bells ringer..now the bells, instead, can also be eaten.. EUR 21,17 USD 26,03

Special stuff

.. if you want to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, or something to be forbidden of.. Palio's Plates This is the plate of the contradas of the Palio di Siena. The Contradas are seventeen and these plates are all beautiful, but don't say it to the men belonging to the contradas, the contradaioli..

The newspaper of Siena

Here you are what it happens in Siena

Special stuff

..if you like something good you need.. The salame to slice for Easter In my house for the Easter dinner we use to "malrimettere", to begin to slice a salame. It is eaten with hard-boiled eggs and bread, at the beginning of the lunch, as good wishes to all people standing around the table. EUR 17,55 USD 21,58