Arpino, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy

Villa Sant'Angelo is an elegant white villa set in about 2,800 square metres of garden. Only a few minutes drive from Arpino, in a tranquil country setting, but not isolated, and with pretty views.

The ground floor has a large entry room/extra sitting room, a spacious kitchen with a door directly into the garden, a sitting room with large glass sliding doors, and a ground floor bedroom and bathroom. (The bedroom also has a door directly into the garden.)

The upper floor has four large, light rooms and another bathroom, as well as wide front and back balconies. The original plan was to create a second apartment on this level, with stairs up to one of the balconies, and therefore have a layout with a large sitting room, eat-in kitchen, and two bedrooms, however the present owner uses all four rooms as bedroom, one with a fireplace, although the plumbing and wiring is still there, if anyone wants an upstairs kitchen.

The house has been partially renovated making it completely habitable, especially on the ground floor where the flooring is in porcelain stoneware tiles in almost all rooms, the fixtures on the ground floor have been changed and installed new, with pvc/aluminium double glazed windows. On the second floor the flooring is made of porcelain stoneware tiles in all the bedrooms, while in the bathroom, completely redone with marble tiles, the fixtures present are made of wood. As for the fuel supply, it is LPG with an underground tank while the drains are in a septic tank.

The current owners had envisioned creating a large patio area at the rear of the property, in front of the kitchen and sitting room, the tiles for which have already been purchased and are included in the sale.

Sold furnished.


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 publicized 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 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 and has much experience in the international marketing of Italian real estate.