General Details

• Country: Italy
• Region: Umbria
• Town: Orvieto Area
• Property No: 44293
• Property Type: House
• Cost From: £380.00 Weekly
  
• Deposit: £0.00
• Breakages: £100.00
• Check In: 17
• Check Out: 10
• Added On: 02/06/2011 19:50:46

Facilities

• Bedrooms: 2
• Bathrooms: 2
• Sleeps: 6

Amenities

• The house has everything you need home from home. Free WFI, Linen, dish washer, washing machine, TV, DVD, Books , games, films. Delicious meals freshly prepared are available on request.
• Historical sites, beautiful medieval hilltop towns, geographical geological interests, nature, boutiques, traditional restaurants. wine region, swimming, walking, tennis
• The prices are based on 4 sharing. £ 70 per week for any extra person up to 6 Everything is included in the price except central heating (metere) and wood charges £30 per week (Woodstove is sufficient until early December)

Owner Details

Please contact Giulia Stevens using contact details below.

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Property Description

Our villa is set amongst the hills of Umbria, near Orvieto ( 40 minutes from Perugia airport and an hour from Rome airports) and has breathtaking views of Lake Bolsena to the front. We are part of the town of Bagnoregio (Civita di Bagnoregio, a fairytale hill top hamlet where time has stood still, was the set for the latest film ?Pinocchio? with Bob Hoskins).

We live in England, but we try to spend as much time at the villa as possible and we plan to move there one day! The ground floor is our holiday apartment and we rent the large luxurious first floor apartment that has its own independent entrance. The apartment is large (130 square metres) and it has been beautifully renovated by using local materials such as cotto, basalt and chestnut wood. It has all the comforts of modern life, home from home, including dish washer, washing machine and free wi fi connection. There are magnificent views from every window of the apartment and the large loggia is ideal for lazy lunches or long suppers or simply to sit and watch the sun sets on ...Lake Bolsena and the skies on fire, with a cool glass of Orvieto or Est! Est! Est!

If you come in the summer the lake is deliciously clean and warm and it is always possible to find a secluded beach around the lake, safe from the Italian summer bank holiday. The late spring is beautiful and it makes you want to take up painting, when the hills become yellow with the ?Ginestra? in flower and the fields around the house are turned to purple by the clover and red by the poppies and all the other vivid colours of the palette by hundreds of wild flowers in competition. The autumn is warm and makes you feel good to be alive and want to sample the fruits of the land, the porcini and truffles, the bore stews, the grapes and the chestnuts. This is one of the best regions for the Italian traditional cuisine, based on fresh local ingredients and what is in season. However it is still good value and the local wine is excellent at 2/3 euros per bottle at the restaurant.

The area is in between 3 regions, Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio and although we are away from it all in a hidden corner of paradise, we are really close to the main Italian railway and motorway network. This makes the villa an ideal base to explore the wonderful sites in central Italy and visit Rome which is only 50 minutes train ride away. However there is so much to do and see that you will be hard pressed to travel further then half an hour radius if you stay for a week. Please book early to avoid disappointment.

RENTALS ARE FROM SATURDAY TO SATURDAY, BUT WE CAN CONSIDER SHORTER STAYS ( MIN 4 DAYS) OR MORE FLEXIBLE ARRANGEMENTS IN THE LOW SEASON.

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Area Description

What is there to do within 20 minutes drive:

? Walk along the footbridge to Civita di Bagnoregio and step back in time.
? Discover a Roman amphitheatre in the middle of a field a few miles away
? Go to the local markets and rediscover what food used to taste like...,try some ?porchetta?.
? See how long you can swim in the warm water of the lake and land on a remote spot where you are totally alone.
? Have supper on the shore of the lake with the local frogs providing the background serenade.
? Buy some Etruscan reproduction jewelry in the medieval streets of Bolsena.
? Be woken up by the birds? chorus.
? Stop to see some recently re-discovered Etruscan painted tombs on the way to Orvieto and see the golden mosaics of the duomo on the opposite hill glitter in the sun.
? Sip a glass of local wine in the main square in Orvieto whilst you take in all the details of the intricate façade of the duomo.
? Walk around the yellow ?ginestra? that covers the terraces around the house in June.
? Take up painting.
? Walk up to the Pope Palace in Montefiascone and work up an appetite for the most gigantic and tasty pizza you ever had.
? Watch the huge sky at night and myriads of stars and constellations.

ORVIETO: 10 miles.( main railway link 50 minutes from ROME - main motorway interchange. Ideal to explore CENTRAL ITALY). Orvieto is a hilltop town dug into the tufo rock. Magnificent cathedral, covered in golden mosaics and carvings that make it shine from the distance in the sunset


CIVITA DI BAGNOREGIO: 3 miles. This ancient hilltop village dates back to the Etruscans and is connected to Bagnoregio by a footbridge. Bagnoregio looks down on the magnificent Val Dei Calanchi with its dramatic eroded tufo peacks.

BOLSENA: 5 miles. Ancient town, the Etruscan Volsinii, that still retains its medieval narrow streets leading up to the castle. The town has magnificent lake front gardens and several restaurants where it is possible to eat 'al fresco' on the lake shore. The local cuisine is unforgettable and the wines are probably amongst the best in Italy. Eating out is very reasonable.

MONTEFIASCONE: 5 miles. Medieval hilltop town, that was for centuries the summer residence of the Popes because of its favourable climate. Cobbled medieval streets lead to the Rocca Dei Papi and its fantastic views.

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