Accommodation
Farm stays, or agriturismi
Countryside places with room to breathe, often with a table of their own oil and wine.
An agriturismo is a working farm that also takes guests. Some are simple rooms above the yard. Some are closer to a country hotel. The best of them give you quiet, a decent breakfast, and a sense of where you actually are.
I always liked staying in the countryside around Pescia and the Valdinievole, because the villages were close and the roads were not grand. Chianti, the Val d’Orcia and the Maremma inland are the better-known areas, and they are popular in summer for a reason. You will almost certainly want a car.
Ask what is still farmed, whether dinner is offered (it often is, and it can be the nicest meal of the week), and how steep the track is after rain. My where to stay in Tuscany guide has more on this, and on when a village room might suit you better.
You can also browse the towns in my accommodation directory, already filtered to farm stays, and open Booking.com from a town that looks right.
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The button uses Booking.com’s Farm stay property type. Some genuine agriturismi are listed under other types, so it is a helpful start rather than a complete list.