Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy

Apartment Serafini: a spacious 110 square metre apartment with a stunning private roof terrace, fully renovated in 1992, on the top floor of a three-storey building in a quiet and elegant condominium with only three other apartments. It is located in the heart of Sora, in the Via Domenico Serafini, near the central Piazza Indipendenza, a few steps from Corso Volsci and the beautiful Cathedral of Santa Maria, additionally being very close to the city's Villa Comunale, a lovely verdant green area. The central location of this home allows easy access to multiple facilities - shops, restaurants, cafés, public transport, pharmacies, medical facilities, banks and numerous service establishments.

Heavy wooden double entrance doors lead into a private entrance hall. On the right a large living room opens to a balcony: the large wooden balcony door with its frosted glass panels, newly finished in with double glazing and wood cladding, allows the light to stream into the bright living room. From the living room there is direct access to the kitchen which also benefits from the natural light pouring in from its own large glass doors onto the balcony. One of the important characteristics of a home is "natural light", which provides a pleasant feeling of warmth and welcome. Investing in large windows made this home an oasis of natural light contributing to the wellbeing of all those who live there.

Continuing down the corridor, on the left we have the first bedroom/study, followed by the second bedroom, which has its own balcony of approximately 6 sq.mt. The main bathroom, which has a bathtub, is finished in a modern style with granite features. The smaller second bathroom has a shower. At the end of the corridor is the splendid 22 sq.mt. master bedroom, beautifully spacious and bright.

Throughout the apartment, you can admire the carefully chosen flooring: principally a type of older flooring from the end of the 19th century, particularly in vogue today, with shades and compositions based on frets, friezes and flowers that emulate "carpets" with beautiful optical illusions. These terrazzo floors are done in fashionable tones of rust, caramel, black and white.

However, perhaps the key feature of Apartment Serafini is its large 60 sq.mt. private roof terrace with a stunning view and enhanced by an attic room of 20 sq.mt. that can be used as a extension of the terrace for the storage of garden furniture, BBQ equipment, etc.


SORA AND THE CIOCIARIA

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 Sora 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 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.