Sora, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy

Only a few metres from the main piazza of the charming hilltop town of Pescosolido, Casa Mariani (ref: 387) is in a building the facade of which was renovated by the municipality a few years ago. The interior however requires general renovation.

The ground floor entrance has on the right a kitchenette with fireplace, and on the left a room currently used as a bedroom and a bathroom. Both these rooms have vaulted ceilings. A staircase then leads to the middle floor, where there is a good sized living room (24 square metres). The staircase then ascends to the upper floor, where there is a large bedroom with balcony and a splendid view of the Apennines, and another bathroom. Because of the slope of the land, while this floor is two storeys up at the valley side, it is ground level at the back, with another entrance door.

There is also a basement with a 25 square metre cellar, with exposed rock.

THE CIOCIARIA REGION

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 Sora 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.