HOW TO REACH US

BY TRAIN: You can get to the Sestaione's Valley and t to the Sichi Hotel by train to the stations of Pracchia, Pistoia or Florence and continue by bus co.pi.t.
BY CAR: speedway Firenze Mare exit Pistoia and State Road 66 first and 12 then for Abetone. From Bologna State Road 64, from Modena State Road 12, from Pisa e Lucca State Road 12.

PIAN DEGLI ONTANI - VAL SESTAIONE

Between the many valleys of Appennino Tosco-Emiliano, the Sestaione's Valley is a particular beautiful place. Inculding two villages Pian degli Ontani e Pian di Novello. For holydays, this valley is beautiful both winter and summer; characteristic of Val Sestaione are peace and warm people.

In summer the valley offers carefulexcursions in the umpolluted wood with the experts of forest, guided visits to Orto Botanico of Abetone, Riserva Naturale di Campolino, trip with horses, fishing and other sports. The undergrowth is rich of mushrooms, strawberries, blackberries... The Hotel Sichi organizes many weeks ecologics-naturalistics for groups and students in spring and autumn.

Pian degli Ontani has the services of bank, post, pharmacy, information office and shops. Sichi offers strawberries, blackberries and rapsberries, mushrooms and chestnuts.

Hotel Sichi organizes many ricreative activity in summer carry out a thick program: dances - in disco or in garden - treasure hunts, excursions, games with bowls, cards, tombola and cultural manifestations. Every saturday there is a band, the room is for every thing available, for games, dance, meeting. The wide bar over the Disco is including in Hotel and it is open all the year.

The Hotel organizes funny weeks in winter when you can ski in Abetone or Doganaccia. It's possible to dine on the mountain in huts and there are special prices for "multipass" and ski - clubs. In spring and summer Sichi organizes ecologic-naturalistic weeks with visits to museums (ice, iron, botanic area, holy art, ethnologic museum) guided excursions in the woods and in natural reserve of Campolino. It's possible to visit chestnut wood and farms where you ca eat excellente snacks with tipical produce; it's possible to fish and to take riding lessons.

If you like the fruits of the wood, this is the perfect place! In the summer Sichi offers strawberries, blackberries and rapsberries, in the others seasons there are mushtrooms and chestnuts. Sichi organizes delicious dinners with game and mushrooms, in the afternoon a party with cooked chestnuts, wine and music.