ABOUT US

Anna Maria Redi is from an old Florentine- Lucchese family. She grew up in Milan, where she graduated in Foreign Languages, Literatures and Philology.

She lives in an ancient picturesque farmhouse with her partner, an Anglo-Irish artist and gardener, their dogs and cats, while their five children have gone off around the world . . .

She is a licensed Realtor, and is qualified in Tourism and Hotel Management.
After organising and running resorts in the tourist industry, she is now dedicated to the property business, specialised in Period Town and Country Homes, Estates and Hotels.

Her office, named ARCADIA, is based in South of Siena, in shared premises with a legal team.

ARCADIA IN TOSCANA - a brief history

The 'Accademia dell'Arcadia' was created in 1690, when fourteen men of letters met in Rome in the garden of the Minor Friars of San Pietro in Montorio. It was a school of philosophy and a literary movement, whose intention was to counterbalance certain excesses in the Baroque style.

These poets belonged to the circle surrounding Queen Christina of Sweden, and this became the first national Academy in Italy, a member of which was my ancestor Francesco Redi, poet, physician and naturalist.

They regarded Arcadia in Greece as a pleasant countryside where life flowed as serenely and simply as the pastoral melodies of the shepherds. 'Re-create Arcadia' was the dominant theme of the Academy - to bring that idyllic atmosphere into Poetry.

This became the natural inspiration for my company, which is involved in the search for ideal places to live in, amid the sweet hills of Tuscany, thus to rediscover our own rhythms and philosophy of life . . . Arcadia In Toscana.