4 bedrooms detached house, 267 m²

Colfelice, Frosinone (province)

Casale Are Murata

Situated between Colfelice and Villafelice, Casale Are Murata comprises a farmhouse and recently restored dependance.

The living rooms on the ground floor of the main house comprise a large entrance and sitting area and a dining room with open kitchen. On this floor there are also two bedrooms and two bathrooms, as well as a panoramic terrace looking out over the historic centre of the nearby town.

On the lower level, there is an entertaining area, with another kitchen, a covered porch and a guest bathroom (also a handy toolroom). From this 'tavern' area, a staircase leads up to a single room, like a turret, with wood beam ceiling.

There is also an annex with an open plan living/kitchen area with fireplace, a storeroom, a hobby room, a bedroom, a large bathroom with built-in shower, and another porch.

The outdoor area has a courtyard, a garden with one cherry, two orange and three lemon trees, as well as a vegetable patch. Nearby arable land (with a well for irrigation) and an olive grove of 20 trees totals another 2,300 m2. 

The heating systems are autonomous with LPG, the water systems are sectioned, the windows double-glazed and grated. The property has a perimeter alarm system, a solarium area and external lighting. There is both car and pedestrian access, as well as disabled on some levels. Awnings are set up on the balconies and in the annexe.

The villa is situated in the area where, according to research by the late archeologist Michelangelo Cagiano de Azevedo, the 'Arcanum' villa, belonging to Cicero's brother Quintus, once stood.

THE CIOCIARIA 

This region of Lazio 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,  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, this area of Lazio remains largely an unspoilt gem with beautiful scenery and medieval hilltop towns. A home or second home here 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.