Le Marche Explorer Holiday Rental Properties, Villas and Apartments with Swimming Pool

Casa del Giardino

Classic Marchigiana Farmhouse with stunning views

Casa del Giardino is a secluded, converted Farmhouse in Le Marche. Built on a south-facing hillside, surrounded by mature gardens and with the most wonderful views of rolling farmland and mountains in the distance, it is an ideal spot for a relaxing break or for a poolside family holiday.

Well behaved and well trained pets are allowed.

Accommodation

The house retains many of its original features. Upstairs, the spacious rooms include a double bedroom, two twin bedrooms and a bathroom (bath/shower, lavatory, bidet). A comfortable sitting room has an open fireplace, beamed ceiling and gallery where the hams were hung. On the ground floor there is a well-equipped kitchen and dining room (fitted with dishwasher, gas cooker, fridge/freezer, wine fridge and wood burning stove), a fourth double bedroom, a washroom (washing machine, capacious shower, lavatory and bidet) and a Portico with fine views to the south. A door leads to a paved terrace, shaded from the sun by wisteria and vines, which is ideal for dining ‘al fresco’. The house is equipped with gas central heating and wood burning stove as well as the fire place, for the winter.

Outside, steps lead around an herbaceous border to a 35 foot floodlit swimming pool with springboard and wide steps at the shallow end, surrounded by a large paved terrace with a lavender and rosemary border. A good range of garden furniture is provided including tables, chairs, reclining chairs, parasol and table tennis table There is also a portable Barbeque and a working original Forno – an oven for baking bread/pizzas and for cooking meat the Marchigiani way. In all the property is around four acres and is accessed by its own gravel track.

Prices

Price per week
No. persons	8
July & August	2200
May, June & September	1600
Easter, Christmas & New Year	1600
Other months	1200

A security deposit of € 350 will be requested and will be refunded subject to any damage or additional expenses incurred.

Heating is excluded.

availability: whole year

accommodation: 8

Ancona (airport) – one hour by car (inexpensive flights with Ryanair).

The village of Gualdo just 'around the corner' offers basic shopping, banking, etc. Market day is on Tuesday.

The nearby town of Sarnano, 10 min. away offers most services, pizzeria's, restaurants, supermarket, tennis courts, hospital and health spa, Fonte San Giacomo with it's mineral water spring and beauty treatment. The market day is on Thursday. Sarnano is notable as one of the few in Le Marche to preserve its medieval town centre completely.

Horse riding, mountain biking, paragliding, trekking, etc. are available in the nearby Mount Sibillini National Park.

Places of great historical interest can be reached within half an hour's driving:

Sarnano, a perfectly restored little town that sits on a hill and is built in a spiral fashion around it. Amandola, a town noted for its antique tradition of ebony furniture and marquetry artistry. Caldarola, with its castles and Serrapetrona famous for its elliptic square, its palaces and mansions and its summer festivals. Then there is Camerino, the ducal city of antique magnificence.

The Roman ruins of the antique town of Urbisaglia are worth visiting along the road to Macerata. They include a magnificent amphitheatre, which, during the summer months, stages a Greco-Roman theatre festival. Visiting Macerata could satisfy an interest in the melodramatic opera. The Sferisterio can be found there, the second Italian arena after Verona. The works of great artists are put on display every year, drawing attention from all over Europe.

Near the Conero National Park coastline is Recanati, where Giacomo Leopardi was born and only one hour in car from the farmhouse you can find the great beaches of the Adriatic Coast like at Porto San Giorgo Sirola.