Arpino, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy

This beautiful casale, set in two and half hectares of private grounds, flanked by lavender fields, is situated halfway between to charming towns: Arpino and Isola del Liri. The gates open onto a driveway that curves round to the main building, a fine two storey stone casale. There are two further unrestored buildings on the property.

The main building has a hallway, four rooms and a bathroom on each floor, currently used as: on the ground floor, an entrance hall, living room, large kitchen with fireplace separated from the dining room by a wide archway, a further room currently used as a laundry and hobby room (also with a fireplace), and a bathroom.

On the upper floor, four bedrooms and another bathroom, as well as a balcony overlooking the surrounding countryside.

The surrounding land includes a large olive grove, a large garage/stables, 73 square metre outbuilding, and pizza/bread oven, as well as its own water source for irrigation (the house itself is on town water).

The main building would benefit from some further upgrading and redecoration, but it has already had work done to the roof, as well as new double glazed windows, and already has a heating system.

The setting is quiet but not isolated, with views on all four sides. Only a few minutes drive from town, and neighbouring a beautiful small lavender farm.


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 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, in the hilltop towns of Arpino, Veroli, Alatri or Alvito 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, 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.