Arpino, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy

Casa Alice is an attractive, light and spacious 120 sq.mt. apartment located in the heart of the historic centre of Arpino, a medieval hilltop town only 90 minutes drive from Rome.

With excellent street access and only a minute's stroll from the main piazza, the property is set at the back of the building, so very quiet, and with a sweeping view over the valley.

The heavy wood front door opening off the beautifully paved main street leads to a communal area. The front door for Casa Alice opens into a prettily curving entrance hall. This leads through to the winter sitting room or study, off which opens the doors to a bedroom and well-fitted modern bathroom. Another door leads to a further room (perhaps to become the kitchen), off which opens the second bedroom and the main living room. The living room has beautiful views of the ancient castle at the crest of the hill, across the valley and to the distant mountains.

The property has been completely restored other than for the installation of a kitchen.

Shops, restaurants bars, cafés and services are all within a few minutes walk, and there is adjacent plentiful street parking.

An adjacent ground floor two room office including a bathroom may become available for sale; if so, its separate purchase would create the possibility of further guest accommodation by creating an ensuite bedroom and bathroom.

Energy classification: G



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 the CINELLI IMMOBILIARE 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 the Cinelli Immobiliare Agency. The Cinelli Immobiliare Agency aims at identifying unique buildings with outstanding locations in the beautiful Ciociaria region, including apartments, historic houses, villas, palazzos and farmhouses. Some of these properties are already renovated while others are to be restored. The Cinelli Immobiliare Agency also provides reliable and full service renovations focussed on the appropriate use of original materials, such as stone, wood and wrought iron, drawing on over 40 years' experience in the restoration sector of their partner company Cinelli Claudio Restorations and their technical office, headed by Ing. Valentina Cinelli.