Veroli, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy

This stunning historic home, in the heart of Veroli, directly opposite the Basilica di S. Erasmo, is in the Palazzo Conte Franchi De' Cavalieri. Sweeping views look out across the Valle del Sacco, while other windows look out onto the two private gardens.

An entrance hall with elegant gilded ceiling vaults leads towards a huge window. To the right, there is a kitchen and dining room, both rooms with wood ceilings, and a serving hatch connecting the kitchen to the dining room. Windows from both rooms look out over the private courtyard garden, which is also directly accessed by a door next to the dining room

The large courtyard garden has high walls for privacy on the town side, and a view across the valley on the other. There are mature trees, flower beds and a fountain. At the far end there is a large niche with a statue. A wide gate opens onto the road opposite the basilica, so part of the courtyard can be used for parking (which still leaves a great deal of space for the garden, alfresco dining etc.)

To the left of the main entrance, there is a large living room, also with coffered wood ceiling, and a bathroom, followed by two fine salons with striking vaulting over the doors and windows.. The floor is in these two rooms is herringbone parquet. There is a particularly exceptional view from the second salon, which has a small nook, suitable perhaps for a desk, extending out with windows on all three sides.

Internal stairs lead down to the lower level, currently laid out with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, one with a hydromassage tub and two-tone inlay flooring with ornamental motifs. There are also a number of cellar rooms, both on this level and on the level below.

Back on the ground floor, two large halls with original terracotta flooring and stone arches lead to a further three bedrooms, a bathroom and another living room.

Stairs lead down to another small apartment with a sitting room and eat-in kitchen, with a double fireplace in the wall between the two, a bathroom, and a door onto a patio. This area is ideal as a 'granny flat' or caretaker's apartment.

There are further large cellar rooms at this end of the property, including an ancient olive oil mill, as well as a further small courtyard and side gate into a small 'Vicolo' (which would also allow a caretaker to come and go from their apartment without walking through the main residence.


Palazzo Franchi de' Cavalieri - history

Palazzo Franchi de' Cavalieri is a magnificent building situated next to the Santo Erasmo Basilica in the historic centre of Veroli, a medieval hill top town an hour's drive southeast from Rome. Early references to the Palazzo date back to the mid 1600s, when, following the breakdown of her marriage to the painter, Carlo Maratta, Francesca Trulli came to live there with her father, Bernadino Trulli. Francesca's name appears in 1663, 1671, 1672 and 1696 as godmother to various babies in the baptismal records of the Santo Erasmo Basilica. The Trulli family name is carved in stone in the archway over one of the inner doors of the palazzo - Anonius B. Trullus, the Latin rendition of Antonio Bernardo Trulli, who lived from 1642 to 1702. Later the palazzo passed into the ownership of the Franchi de' Cavalieri family from whence it derived its present name.


Veroli - an overview

Veroli predates the Roman Empire, being founded as an Ernici town with city walls built in Cyclopan style. In the historical centre, it is possible to see the ancient Roman walls supporting the large terrace on which the Cathedral of St. Andrea now stands. The Basilica dedicated to St. Maria Salome, Veroli's patron saint, is famous for its Holy Stairwell similar to the ones in Jerusalem and in the Church of St Giovanniin Laterano in Rome.

Veroli is less than an hour's drive to Rome's main international airport; a similar driving time reaches Rome's main railway station and the heart of Rome itself.

Veroli is at the heart of the historical area known as the Ciociaria, a geographical bridge between Rome and Naples, fertile with rolling hills and mountains, settled by the Romans, its civilization growing through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and reaching great prosperity in the 1800s. The beautifully-restored historical centre of Veroli within its city walls is an architectural gem and a worthy setting for Palazzo Franchi.



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, his agency is one of the largest and most highly-regarded real estate agents in the area and he has much experience in the international marketing of Italian real estate.