The 18-hole Mountain course at Castelfalfi Golf & Country Club in Montaione, Italy is scheduled to open this summer, and the club’s 18-hole Lake course may open as early as the spring of 2011.
The golf complex will anchor Toscana Resort Castelfalfi, a 2,750-acre spread in the heart of Tuscany that will eventually be able to accommodate 3,200 tourists a day.
The property constitutes all four square miles of what used to be a quaint but crumbling Italian village that included a failing golf course (Castelfalfi Golf & Country Club) designed by the late Pier Luigi Mancinelli. TUI Hotels & Resorts, a German tour operator and hotelier, bought the village with the idea of making it a modern, professionally designed holiday destination. TUI junked the existing golf course and brought in Wilfried Moroder and Rainer Preissmann to design the new ones.
Moroder is based in Bolzano, Italy, and Preissmann hails from Essen, Germany.
Incidentally, the Nazi army used the village as a staging area during World War II.
Castelfalfi.it
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
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