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Casale Adriano - Marche
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Accommodates 8 persons — 4 Bedrooms — 4 Baths
Separate Guest Cottage; Swimming Pool
What a view! That was our first, immediate reaction as we stepped our of the car on our recent visit to Casa Adriano. Just fantastic, among verdant valleys, snow-capped peaks, and hills topped by castles and medieval churches. This property’s setting, adjacent to the Monti Sibillini National Park, is truly enchanting.
Casa Adriano’s Australian owners have remodeled the house with great taste. They’ve left all the charm – multi-patterned terracotta floors, exposed-beam ceilings, 3-foot-thick stone walls, and wooden shutters – while equipping the house with a host of modern conveniences.
The house is, unusually for a stone structure of this sort, full of sunlight, enhanced by its elevated position. Several sets of French doors lead into ground level, where you’ll find a most inviting living room with a working fireplace, satellite TV/DVD, and excellent sound system. The owners have a good selection of books, music and video diskettes and CDs. One modern convenience the house does not have is a phone or an internet connection. You can obviously use your cell phone, and for internet even the smallest hamlet now has what Italians call an “internet point” for checking email.
Adjacent, as you’d expect, is the spacious eat-in kitchen, top of the line, featuring absolutely everything you’ll need in the way of equipment and appliances to prepare restaurant-quality gourmet meals. The dining table made by a local artisan will seat up to 12 comfortably.
Completing the ground floor are a bathroom with shower and a laundry room equipped with a clothes washer, tumble dryer (!), iron, and vacuum cleaner.
Upstairs are 3 bedrooms and 2 additional baths, each of these last with tub, separate shower stall, and double sinks. The largest of the bedrooms is clearly a master, with bath en-suite, and its own sitting area. But the other two bedrooms, each with twinnable matrimonial beds, are excellent as well, so that if you come to Casa Adriano as a party of 3 couples, we don’t think anyone would feel as if they had the “worst” of the deal. True, one couple would have to use the bathroom downstairs, but we feel that that is a really minor issue which ought to be gotten over. Beds are really excellent quality throughout, and all three bedrooms enjoy magnificent views over the surrounding panorama.
Outside and uphill a short way is a fully independent studio guest cottage with excellent-quality queen-size sofabed, separate kitchenette, and bathroom with shower. The guest cottage, which, by the way, is never rented separately, enjoys the best views of all!
The way Casa Adriano is set up makes it ideal for couples, for groups of single adults, and for families with children. Two couples and 3 or 4 children would be in heaven here.
Grounds are hedged rose garden mainly, with a flat area around the 5 x 10 meter swimming pool that enjoys the same stunning views. Alfresco dining is one of the most attractive possibilities at Casa Adriano, with both covered and open-air terraces on offer. The views from here out to the towers of Regnano and Paterno are spectacular.
What’s our precise location here? Well, the closest walled medieval villages are San Ginesio, Urbisaglia, and Colmurano, with the larger city of Tolentino about 10 minutes’ drive. Even the smaller villages have family-run grocery stores, restaurants, coffee bars, and other amenities, while Tolentino – with a delightful medieval center of its own – has big supermarkets, shopping centers, and numerous eating establishments from fancy to downhome. Take a look at our Sample Itinerary for Le Marche to see what this magnificent area has to offer in the way of activities and daytrips. Don’t forget: You’re less than an hour from the Adriatic beaches AND even closer to mountain activities like hiking, mountain biking, rock climbing, horseback riding, and that most classic of all: picnicking.
The closest airport is Ancona (Lufthansa, Alitalia, Ryanair, and others), while Pescara, Bologna, Rome, and Perugia are possibilities as well.
Finally, the owners have themselves created what we consider to be THE very best “house book” we have ever seen in our 25 years of being in the business. You’ll find yourself guided not only to local restaurants and nearby hilltowns, as you’d expect, but to such more recherche’ attractions as wine-producers; first-class art in forgotten churches; opera, classical music, and jazz, often in spectacular settings; local flea markets; food festivals celebrating everything from the snail to the wild boar, from the chickpea to the frog!
Casa Adriano is one of those special properties which we ourselves are looking forward to renting some day soon.
Rates:
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Jun 27-Aug 29: 2350 euros/week
Other periods: 1900 euros/week
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| Extras: |
None |
| Arrival: |
Saturday generally, but inquire |
Minimum
stay: |
1 week |
| Pool open: |
June-September |
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