Villa Pian di Marte

Casa del Lupo is an Umbria/Tuscany Villa rental home owned by David and Dilys Cordingley since 2003. They installed a big (12x6 metre) pool with solar heating panels.

The house was rebuilt from a complete ruin in 1994 so the house has some unusual features with much bigger windows and a more open plan than is usual in an old house conversion. It is a big house with a substantial sitting room on the lowest level and a dining room and kitchen on a higher level. From here stone stairs lead to three bedrooms : a good sized double bedroom, a double bedroom with en suite bathroom and a room with two single beds and a further two, full single, beds stacked one on the other. The very large bathroom has a shower and a tub.

The sitting room has TV with English language channels, DVD and CD players. The well ordered kitchen with good working surfaces has all that is needed on a self catering holiday.

Casa del Lupo is in Pian di Marte in Umbria, right on the border with Tuscany. The beautiful Niccone valley is over the hill to the north and the road to Lake Trasimeno and the Perugia-Siena superstrada to the south. Casa del Lupo is rented by Gorgacce Rentals which was the pioneer of villa accommodation in this area and has been instrumental in making these beautiful valley known to people from all over the world. Its success in bringing self catering vacationers has led to other Tuscany houses and Umbria self catering villas and apartments being made available for international rental.

This Umbria villa has wonderful views over the Villa Pian di Marte, surrounded by hills and woodland, some in Tuscany and some in Umbria the two regions of Italy which offer so much rich culture and history to the visitor. There are two nearby villages, one in Tuscany and one in Umbria providing for people on self catering vacations in Tuscany and Umbria. There are many local festivals including the village fêtes in the summer, the chestnut festivals in the autumn and the "living cribs" over the Christmas period - all traditions of the Tuscany/Umbria border area of Italy.

Casa del Lupo is well located for touring both Tuscany and Umbria. The famous Tuscany hill town of Cortona, a real gem, is thirty minutes away. (Gorgacce Rentals also has two apartments for rental in the centre of this historic town.) The upper Tiber valley to the east has many walled towns that have made this area so renowned. To the west, Siena is less than an hour's drive and in between are Montepulciano and Pienza. Orvieto is to the south, Perugia is about forty minutes and Lake Trasimeno is just over the hill. From the rail station at Terontola-Cortona, even day trips to Rome are quite easy. Florence is about ninety minutes by car or by train. To the east lie the important Umbrian towns of Assisi, Spello, Spoleto, Gubbio and many others famed not only for their unspoilt, walled appearance and associations but for their wines, truffles olive oils and other delicacies.

Gorgacce Rentals has other Villa Pian di Marte and self catering apartments in both Tuscany and Umbria reaching from Arezzo in the north (just south of Florence) to Cortona and Lake Trasimeno in the south. We have been in operation since 1994 and have a full range of luxury villas for rent, converted farmhouses, Cortona apartments for rent and Spello self catering apartments.