VF36 - 50 Castiglione d’Orcia loc. Gallina - La Vecchia Posta
VF36 - 50 Castiglione d’Orcia loc. Gallina - La Vecchia Posta
- Email: lavecchiaposta@yahoo.com
- Telephone: +39 331 9972594
- Telephone 2 : +39 339 1050576
- Address: Via Cassia, 43/45 53023 Loc. Gallina (Castiglione d’Orcia – SI) ITA
- Website: https://www.facebook.com/ostellolavecchiaposta
- Owner: Michela e Cesare Guasconi
- Opening period:
From March to November.
- How to arrive:
Arriving from S. Quirico d’Orcia along the s.s. Cassia, will find the hostel in the center of the village, on the left along the main road (50 meters after the Bar-restaurant “Il Parallelo”). Arriving from Castiglione d’Orcia, once reched the farmhouse “Acquasalsa” it has two options. The first is to follow the official route to the farm “Passalacqua” and here go down to the left towards the village of Gallina: past the bar you will find us on the right after 150 meters. The second is to make a detour by taking the “Strada del Pozzo” (on the left): you will reach the center of Gallina, entering the Cassia, right in front of the hostel.
- Accommodation type:
Hostel
- Notes:
Eight beds distributed in three rooms, overlooking the countryside. Possibility of 1 extra bed.
Overnight price: € 15.00 per person
€ 20.00 per person with bed linen and bath towel
- Services:
Space for bikes, luggage storage, fridge, TV, washing machine, hair dryer.
Sitting area with reading corner.
At 50 meters bar-restaurant “Il Parallelo”, at 150 meters bar “Panini ai sapori di una volta”.
- Restaurant:
A large kitchen/living room with a fireplace is available. It is equipped with crockery and utensils for cooking a simple meal or a breakfast with packaged ingredients that can be found in the pantry.
The village of Gallina (formerly known as “Osteria Gallina”) is located near the ancient hospitale of Briccole (Abricula), XIth stage of Sigeric’s itinerary, and after the Renaissance post house of “La Scala”. Located, on the line of the 43rd parallel, right in the middle of Val d’Orcia, from it you can quickly reach all the main places of interest in the valley.
The hostel is located in a building that has always owned by the family, which there has managed an inn and post house since the 19th century: it became Post Office after the second world war until the ’70s. With “La Vecchia Posta” there is the desire to give a sort of continuity to the vocation that the structure had for most of its history.
