It was a joy for us to create the Assisi countryside apartments behind our house – and the joy continues as our guests share with us their appreciation of our lodgings. Maura,…
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At any time of year, the town of Bolsena and Lake Bolsena beckon – but especially in the summertime. We often spend many a weekend on the Lake at the family-run Hotel…
We always tell our apartment guests that the best eating – and at the most economical prices – is at the evening food festivals of the small villages, le sagre. Our favorite…
The curtain’s up on our Assisi countryside apartment, Casa dell’Arco: literally….. but not only. Creating the interiors of our Assisi countryside apartments – so tastefully designed and built by my husband Pino…
Lisa and family, a joy to host this summer – che bello!Your notes to us when you left were most appreciated. And Paolo, glad you noticed the kitchen marble-top table (with so…
With 90% of the elegant Renaissance buildings lacerated in the October 2016 earthquake, Marches region hilltown gem Visso awaits a resurrection. The town is now zona rossa and cordoned off: ……. and the…
When we moved to Umbria to work the land in 1975, our farmhouse – without heat, running hot water, electricity, bathroom – rented for 25, 000 lire per month. Sound like a…
We headed through the magnificent Valnerina to a wink of a hilltown, Todiano, not far from Preci. The arched entryway to the village is testament to its origins as a 14th-c feudal…
For the Feast of Corpus Domini – sixty days after Easter – floral splendor carpets the medieval alleyways of hilltown gem, Spello, for their stunning festival, le Infiorate. Depending on the year’s climactic conditions, la…
When I first took Pino to see the small apartment in the Assisi backstreets, he exclaimed, “Mamma mia! Perche’ mai vorresti questa piccionaia? (Why would you ever want this pigeonhole?)” I grinned…