Hotel "La Bettola del Buttero", Restaurant and hotel at Fabro exit of A1 Motorway, Italy.
La Bettola del Buttero is a combined hotel and restaurant at the Fabro exit of the A1 motorway, on the border between Umbria and Tuscany. It has guest rooms alongside a dining room that serves travelers stopping along the route.
The A1 motorway, known as the Autostrada del Sole, was completed in the 1960s and for the first time linked northern and southern Italy by a direct road. Stops like this one grew up along its length to serve the rising number of drivers using the route.
The name «Buttero» refers to the traditional cattle herder of the Maremma, a rural area straddling southern Tuscany and northern Lazio. Inside the dining room, a large stone fireplace used for grilling meat gives the space a rustic, countryside feel that connects to this pastoral tradition.
The property sits right at the Fabro motorway exit, making it easy to reach without a detour. It is worth calling ahead to book a table, as the kitchen serves meals during set lunch and dinner hours.
Fabro sits on the exact boundary between Umbria and Tuscany, which means this stop touches two of Italy's most storied regions at once. Towns such as Città della Pieve, known for its frescoes by Perugino, and the Etruscan sites around Chiusi are reachable in a short drive from here.
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