Square Metres: 1,200
Bedrooms: 7
Bathrooms: 5
Garden / Land: 1.8 hectares
Annex: Independent Stables apartment with terrace and private garden

Price: 1.9 million euro negotiable

The ground floor of the church has been used to create the owner’s apartment with: entrance, kitchen, living room with fireplace, bathroom and bedroom with bath private terrace.

Still on the ground floor there are some cellars and a technical room suitable to create a kitchen with external terrace, ideal to eat outside.

Going up 5 steps we find the first floor of the structure where there is an apartment composed as follows: entrance, dining room, bathroom, living room with fireplace, two bedrooms with bathroom and kitchen.

Remaining on the first floor but with independent entrance we find another apartment with: dining-kitchen, bathroom and bedroom.

The second floor, comprises: entrance, large living room and three bedrooms with bathroom.

There is a project to create a pool in the beautiful garden with plants and fruit trees.

The land within the property is 1.8 hectares (4.4.5 acres) of mixed land and includes a small woodland.

The property is currently run as a country house, but would make an impressive private home.

CONDITION: Carefully restored. Luxury finishes.

FEATURES: Old stone constructed, ceilings with wooden beams and terracotta tiles, parquet flooring.

NEAREST TOWNS: Mercatello sul Metauro (7km; 9’); Borgo Pace (11km; 13’); Urbino (25km; 29’); Sestino (18km; 24’); Badia Tedalda (36km; 44’); Sansepolcro (44km; 47’); San Marino (47km; 45’); Pesaro (62km; 1h 12’); Cattolica (65km; 1h 18’); Rimini (88km; 1h 27’).

AIRPORTS

Rimini Miramare (82km; 1h 27’); Ancona Falconara (101km; 1h 27’); Forlì (136km; 1h 54’)

The very popular sister website of Livinginlemarche.com is updating many of its features over the coming months and all the latest news and information can be found on the Livinginlemarche.com blog at http://www.livinginlemarche.com/blog

Several Italian organic producers from Abruzzo, Calabria and Puglia have also contacted us and asked about possible collaboration with Vinitours in 2011 and in the future. We feel that this will bring our clients an even greater range of choice and hope to have a few tours to these regions of Italy by the Autumn of 2011.

The City of Fermo in southern Le Marche

In Le Marche our aim to is where possible only work with small producers who are certified organic and we are lucky to know several great artisan producers who we believe offer some of the best produce in the whole of Italy as well as just Le Marche!!

All the tours that we have on offer have been specially designed to offer both the novice and experienced traveller and hope we can provide an experience that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. All of us both in Le Marche and in Umbria hope many of our clients will now be tempted into taking part in the tours we have on offer and for more details please do visit our sister website at  www.vinitours.co.uk

The site features beautiful holiday and long term rental properties in Italy, Sicily and Malta and many of these properties are also situated  in the major Italian cities of Rome, Florence and Venice.

Please do visit www.italiarentals.com when you are planning a short or long break in beautiful Italy or Malta and we hope you like what you see there.

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Montedoro Olive Oil Mill

In Le Marche the weather is proving to be quite a problem as it is very changable with rain and wind interspersed with hot dry periods, so making it diffcult to plan work on the harvest day to day. This means long hot tiring days for the workers harvesting the olives when the weather is good enough for them to work on the trees. The best olive oil is still made from olives hand picked from the trees and not by large mechanical harvesters, but this can be back breaking work, not the romantic olive picking often seen in books and films about Italy.

Granite rollers at the Olive Oil Mill

A very good friend helps run a very busy mill, the Frantoio Montedoro which is situated near the Adriatic resort of Senigallia. The weather had been good that day, dry and sunny so work had been progressing well and many producers were turning up well into the evening and night to deliver their loads of olives. At this time of year the work continues where possible for 24 hours a day and will continue all the way through to Christmas in the larger mills but the result will be a bountiful harvest of sweet green olive oil, perhaps one of the best for many years. I have tried some of the new olive oil and it is quite superb and so I now plan to keep my blog updated with all the news from this years harvest and will be importing the new Le Marche extra virgin olive oil into the UK in December.

Urbino – a world heritage site and UNESCO town.  Urbino was the model renaissance city during the Italian Renaissance. , Urbino wrote the book on courtly behaviour during the 16th century. Ruled by Federico da Montefeltro, who brought Europe’s greatest architects and artists to build his model city. Today it’s an elegant, relaxed and very pleasant town, with good restaurants and fine museums and galleries.

Why not take some time out and explore this lovely area and I can recommend lovely accommodation at LOCANDA DELLA VALLE NUOVA which is located  in sight of Urbino itself and which is registered  in UNESCO’s World Heritage List.  The country house sits in 105 acres of an organically run farm and nestled in a landscape of gentle rolling hills , rich in wild flora and fauna, where ancient oaks are still protected as they were in the times of the Dukes of Montefeltro.

The town of Senigallia in southern Le Marche was declared the most energy efficient in Italy at the Klimaenergy Fair in Bolzano.  The town’s administration has, in recent years, installed 4,000 square metres of solar panels on the roofs of houses, warehouses and public and private offices besides installing 983.77 kilowatts of photovoltaic panels in the town, including ground-mounted systems.

Receiving the prize, the Mayor of Senigallia said his town had demonstrated what a committed administration can do with regard to using renewable energy sources. He said that the town had applied the Itaca Protocol on “green building” and , with the water and gas supplier Multiservizi, will be installing small hydroelectric systems in suburban aqueducts. He added that his administration is determined to pursue green energy policies in the future.

The towns of Torre San Giorgio, Vipiteno and Bolzano also received awards for their energy policies at the ceremony, organised by Legambiente and Kilmaenergy.

Source:   Italy Mag

Introducing the winery estate of the brothers Linoand Fabrizio Strucci, “Azienda San Filippo” at Offida, Ascoli Piceno, founded in 1999 with the intention of continuing the culture of winemaking inherited from their father and uncle. In 2003, their passion and experience led to the decision to found the winery ‘Azienda Agricola San Filippo’ which lies in the southernmost part of Le Marche.

Uniquely, they are committed to produce wines which are subject to organic standards.  The estate covers a surface of 48 hectares (120 acres), 28.00 ha (70 acres) of which are vineyards.  The Italian authority “Suolo e Salute” is an accredited certifying agent and has entitled ‘Azienda Agricola San Filippo’ with the certificate of organic growth and processing standards, and regular inspections are carried out at the estate.

Therefore, San Filippo has successfully replaced traditional winemaking by organic farming and processing.  San Filippo is proud to use the quality seal ‘organic’ for their wines ever since vintage 2005.   They themselves realize all the processing steps beginning with the meticulous care of the vineyards to harvesting and a careful winemaking processes to the bottling of the various types of products.

TASTING NOTES: PECORINO DOP
Intense straw-yellow.  scent of ripe fruit and yellow flowers. In the mouth, hot, very fresh,  A wine with considerable structure.

ALL VARIETIES:

Offida Pecorino DOP

Lupo del Ciafone Rosso DOP

Kathasis Rosso Piceno DOP

Rosso Piceno DOP

Falerio DOP

Offida Passerina DOP

Offida Passerina Passito DOP