6 bedrooms farmhouse, 400 m²

Arpino, Frosinone (province)

Key features

- Elegant old stone Casale
- fully restored, marrying modernity and tradition
- finely furnished 
- private garden
- car box, woodshed, cellar and a dependance
- Panoramic views
- Peaceful but not isolated country location, a few minutes drive to charming and bustling town

Description

In Arpino, located on a hill and surrounded by characteristic olive trees and enchanting vineyards, this beautiful casale is now for sale. The charming property, recently renovated, measures about 400 square meters and is spread over three levels. The fine finishes and furnishings take up the typical Tuscan rustic style, such as terracotta floors and ceilings with exposed wooden beams. The property is completed by a romantic veranda surrounded by flowering vines, an external porch with stone colonnade and roof with exposed wooden beams, lots of land with parking space and a dependance for guests. The property is also surrounded by ancient olive trees, vines and numerous fruit trees, including a lush climbing fig that covers the old stone walls.

On the ground floor, past the traditional wooden doors, the property is structured as follows: elegant entrance with stone stairs; study and reading room with library, original fireplace and a big window that overlooks the outside aera, giving big light to the room; dining room with antique wooden door communicating with the external porch, hallway with service bathroom, kitchen with wood-burning oven and external veranda; all this maintaining a strong coherence in stylistic choices and original restored ceilings with traditional exposed wooden beams.

Going up to the second floor, we have three large bedrooms, each one with a fancy ensuite bathroom, including the master bedroom, equipped with a built in closet, a bathroom with bathtub and a large terrace with panoramic views over the Liri valley, flanking a hidden laundry area. There is a fourth room (livingroom/ bedroom) that leads to the second part of the house, overlooking an airfield with parking space.

This second part of the building includes a tavern with kitchenette and fireplace and a raised floor with two well-kept double bedrooms and a bathroom.

The building was recently renoveted (2010) and is therefore in excellent condition. It is powered by methane gas and is equipped with radiators heating, plus a hot/cold air conditioning system, predisposition for building a pool in the outside area, and double-glazed/wood frames. 


ARPINO AND THE CIOCIARIA

Arpino is one of the major medieval hilltop towns in the area of Italy called the Ciociaria, the name given to the fertile land that lies south of Rome but north of Naples, situated inland in the hills in the heart of Italy. The Ciociaria region is within easy reach of both Rome and Naples and their respective airports. A day's shopping in Rome is a common pastime, while an even shorter drive brings you to the charming beaches south of Rome. Alternatively, drive east, and the mountains of the Abruzzo National Park await with horse trekking in the magnificent beech forests, and sparkling mountain lakes and rivers where you can swim in the heat of the summer. And at the other extreme of temperature, although Arpino itself is temperate, less than an hour's drive brings you to the winter ski slopes.

Often overlooked, both by tourists and by those foreigners in search of an Italian home, in favour of the more publicised regions of Tuscany and Umbria, the Ciociaria remains largely an unspoilt gem with beautiful scenery and medieval hilltop towns. A home or second home in the Ciociaria, in the hilltop towns of Arpino, Veroli, Alatri or Alvito or in the rolling countryside that surrounds them, will afford you a setting where over two thousand years of history combine with an idyllic rural Italian lifestyle, where you can still discover the 'real' Italy and take time out from the busy crowds of the larger tourist cities, while being less than ninety minutes journey from central Rome or either of Rome's two airports.


VIA ROMANA Srls and CASE & CASALI REAL ESTATE AGENCY

Via Romana Srls is an Italian-incorporated company owned by a British/Australian Chartered Accountant and her photographer daughter, and offers a package of services to facilitate all aspects of the purchase and restoration of Italian property by overseas clients. The Via Romana team works in collaboration with various fully-licensed Italian real estate agencies including Case & Casali Real Estate Agency represented by Sig. Ciro Tomei. Sig. Tomei has been enrolled in the register of real estate agents at the Chamber of Commerce in Frosinone, Lazio since 2007, is one of the largest and most highly-regarded real estate agents in the area and has much experience in the international marketing of Italian real estate.