ATTRACTION

Near the property is possible to play golf (golf club Perugia is at only 6 Km), while the Trasimeno lake, where to have a boat trip, is at only 20minutes by car. The horse riding ground is at only 200m.

At San Biagio della Valle (only 1 Km), there is the market, while the bakery, the bar and the tobacconist are in Pila, at only 3 Km. The laundry is at only 300m from Antica Posta

At 5 minutes by car there is an other small Village, Spina, Characterised by the presence of an old castle that domains all the valley. In Spina there are a chemist, a bank, and a butcher, as well as a mini supermarketand a bar and a tabacconist. At San Biagio della Valle there is tennis court. The nearest commercial centre is Emisfero, in Perugia at only 8 Km.

The railway station is at only 10 Km while the centre of perugia is at 15/20 minutes by car.

Around the center there are many parks where leave the car and discover the city by walking, reaching the main street through the Rocca Paolina, one of the most important monuments of the city. Perugia, with its monuments such as the Etruscan Arch, the museums and its majestic main street, Corso Vannucci, could be one of your excursion, to admire its architecture and discover its small streets, or having lunch or a drink in a bar of the city center.

Throughout the year Umbria region organize a great variety of art events, exhibition, music, theatre etc, and available at the www.umbria-turismo.it . In each house there is a booked of informations writed by the owner and where the guests can get advices and informations about the various villages and the various characteristic cities to visit in Umbria (Todi, Spello, Spoleto, Montefalco, Norcia, Bevagna for example), the attractions of each city and town, things to do and see, the various monuments and museums.

In every house are also available tourist guides and brochures for guests.

In spring un until autumn Umbria Region is rich of village festival (named sagre), where sometimes people wear costumes that recall the clothes of a time, as the Gaite in Bevagna, and where you can taste the typical foods of the place, dance, listen music and watch the various entertainment shows.

In Deruta, city worldwide famous for its ceramics, the people fond of these creations can have fun with the wide variety of shops and artisans who make and sell pottery of any kind, suitable like home furnishings and whatever 'more.In Deruta there is also the Ceramics Museum, opened all year and where are often organized exhibitions.

Delicatessen

The delicatessen, the wine and the oil are what more characterizes Umbria, and are also important elements of the regional economy. Very often the visitors who came in Umbria want to have wine and food tasting tours, that are just the reason of their departure or return.

At only 4 Km from the property there is the Agricultural Mariotti, a family business farm whose peculiarities are the closed cycle farms: the pigs born from mares in modern warehouses and are fed grain grown in the soils of the farm and treaties in feed mill company.

Over the years the company has continually focus on improving the quality of the meat derived from its breedings, that are sold fresh or turned in typical umbrian pork product like ham, sausages of exceptional goodness.

The company produces aged cheese, Pecorino cheese, legumes, cereals, various types of artisan beer, jams, honey, pork product, truffle products and condiments.

The company has a retail store.

Umbria is characterized by another important product in its cuisine and famous around the world: the truffle, of which produces as much as 80% of the black truffle found in Italy. The truffle is used not only with the pasta but also with eggs, meat and bread. Since truffles are flavored oil too.

In Umbria the extra virgin olive oil is another essential element of the regional cooking, without considering that our region produces the highest percentage of extra virgin olive oil. Near the house you can buy it on farms such as the cellar or Monte Vibiano Vecchio and Goretti cellar.

Umbria is also known for other products such as the red onion of Cannara, where every year in September there is the Festival of the of onion, the lentils of Castelluccio di Norcia, the red potato of Colfiorito and for all the products that are obtained from meat processing pork, such as sausages, salami etc, of which Norcia is famous.

Wine

The wine tours have always characterized the tourism of Umbria, where is possible to find not only a great variety of places to visit as Torgiano, Montefalco, Orvieto, etc., but also many wineries where you can make a complete tour and see the cultivation, the various processes of production and taste the wines produced by the farm accompanied with meats and local products, such Torta al Testo (Testo is a stone that is made incandescent) or Easter bread.

Near the property there various wine cellar like La Spina, Goretti and Monte Vibiano Vecchio.