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| Dolphin International Properties LLC |
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Gioia Zwack
52 East 64th Street
New York, NY 10021 USA
US/INT Mobile: 646-644-4642
Fax: (212) 570-0138 |
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About ten years ago cosmopolitan Americans who had already "done" Chiantishire decided that Umbria was the place to be. People like Ted Turner started buying houses here and the hills around Todi have become the favourite haunt of international travellers in the know. The landscape of Umbria has nothing to envy its Tuscan neighbour with its own share of cypresses and olive groves and the same views over old stone farmhouses and hilltop villages. It is also less crowded in summer, an undiscovered delight of a region where nothing is so famous as to have become almost a cliché.
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Todi looks down over the Tiber valley from its splendid hilltop position. According to legend, the gods had a hand in creating Todi; an eagle swept over the plains and snatched the blueprints for the city and dropped them at the top of a hill. Todi was first an ancient Etruscan (the Etruscans were never able to resist a hilltop village) and then Roman settlement and has an uncorrupted medieval air. From one of Umbria's most beautiful squares, the piazza del Popolo, and the magnificent Duomo flanking it - tiny streets wander higgledy-piggledy throughout the town. Todi has become a very popular place for sophisticated British and Americans expats and travelers and there are plenty of fine small shops with antiques, clothing and local goods as well as restaurants.
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Casa del Conte
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Sleeps 8 |
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This handsome, old stone farmhouse, masterfully restored and furnished, is a five bedroom private home, the owner's own, never before rented out, at ten minutes from Todi, one of the loveliest towns in Umbria. |
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Monte Calvo
(Price on request)
Sleeps 13 |
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Monte Calvo is a large beautifully restored farmhouse perched above Todi with amazing views of the Umbrian countryside and of the town below from its windows and from the pool. The house stands on a hundred acre estate which belongs to a well-known noble family from Southern Italy. |
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La Casetta
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Sleeps 5 |
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On the same property as Casa del Conte and Monte Calvo and minutes away from Todi is a charming cottage-like farm house, La Casetta, which has been lovingly restored. It is covered in flowering creepers with a vine-clad portico in stone. |
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| Acqualoreto |
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Acqualoreto is a tiny hilltop hamlet between Todi and Orvieto. It has a church, small shop and bar and magnificent views over the Tiber valley. Two of our most delightful homes are located here, Torre del Tenente a few minutes by foot and Torre, a few minutes by car.
8 1/2 miles to Todi
12 miles to Orvieto
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La Torre
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Sleeps 9 |
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This old stone house is set in delightful gardens on top of a hill near the little medieval hamlet of Acqualoreto. Above all, the house itself is so romantic, with views of the valley of the River Tiber stretching dizzily into the distance, that it is a place one might seriously contemplate falling in love IN. |
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Torre del Tenente
(Price on request)
Sleeps 6 |
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The Torre del Tenente or Lieutenant's Tower is perched at the highest point of the slope leading up to the tiny picturesque hamlet of Acqualoreto. With splendid views all around, the Torre del Tenente is the ideal refuge for a writer, a painter, or a couple seeking a romantic hideaway, seemingly suspended above some of the most beautiful countryside in Umbria. |
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