La Selva Christmas

Rooms description

There are three spacious en-suite bedrooms on the first floor, and one on the split-level floor, all with high, beamed ceilings and traditional cotto floors. Downstairs is a smaller en suite double with a resin floor. The sixth bedroom is a delightful space with an exposed stone wall on a mezzanine level in the garden guest house. All the beds have luxurious memory-foam mattresses and are dressed with beautiful, cool, comfortable, coloured linens. Original Moroccan Berber rugs decorate the floors. These are bedrooms that you will dream about long after you have returned home.

All of the bedrooms have en-suite shower rooms with high-performance fixtures and fittings.

The sleek kitchen design includes a resin floor and a long island that accommodates Smeg appliances: a dishwasher, two ovens and a five-burner gas hob. The wooden units are modern yet rustic while the deep butler’s sink was salvaged from the original farmhouse. Guests’ needs are looked after with an ice maker, a wine cellar and a high-end coffee machine. The clever layout means the kitchen looks over the sitting room, enabling whoever is cooking to be part of the social picture while having plenty of space for culinary creativity. Open to the kitchen and the sitting room but within its own space is the dining area. A long, oak dining table made by a local carpenter takes centre stage, while the glass Foscarini pendant lampshades overhead add the design magic - their strong olive and terracotta colours reflecting the surrounding landscape. The beautiful wooden dining chairs with their coloured seats that subtly unite the space are by another young Italian brand - Miniforms.

The ground-floor sitting room is beautifully proportioned and a couple of steps lower than the kitchen. Two sets of French windows lead to the veranda and views across the garden to the valley beyond, while a fireplace with a fabulous copper flue offers a functional focal point. Fireside seating and comfy sofas and chairs are matched with coffee tables made from the salvaged window shutters of the old farmhouse. Puglian lamps with handmade shades, Sicilian ceramics, and modern art by Giuliano Cardella, all in rich, deep colours, add character. On the first floor there is a spacious, open-plan library, TV and study room that leads out to the upstairs terrace. A local carpenter made the bookcases while the Petite Friture Vertigo pendant lamp adds flair.

The garden guest house overlooks the pool and includes a ground-floor kitchen, bathroom and sitting room, while upstairs there is a large mezzanine double bedroom. Beautifully decorated in white linens with lots of green plants it's perfect for those who want a calm space away from the main house.

Leisure & Activities

Special Umbria is happy to tailor-make itineraries for our guests, including guided tours, wine and olive oil tastings, massage therapists or yoga classes. We are able to organise a private chef for your entire stay or someone who can prepare traditional, local food when required, such as a welcome dinner the day you arrive, breakfast delivery/preparation and a grocery service. Please contact us directly for rates and availability.

The world-famous, annual Umbria Jazz Festival takes place in the first two weeks of July. Previous artists include Diana Krall, John Legend and Lady Gaga. Please ask for more details.

Surroundings

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La Selva is tucked away in the hills yet is close to San Terenziano and Grutti, both a five-minute drive by car. San Terenziano has everything you could need for your stay, from local food shops, bars, restaurants and amazing gelato, while Grutti's restaurant is a must for its wonderful local dishes. For a large and easy food shop, albeit without the same charm, you can head to the mall at the exit to the E45, 15 minutes away by car. La Selva is surrounded by olive trees, vineyards and beautiful views of Collazzone and Saragano. Guests can enjoy the privacy and tranquility of the house's location while many of the lovely medieval towns that dot the hilltops of this beautiful Umbrian landscape, including Montefalco, Deruta, Todd, Assisi, Perugia and Bevagna, are under an hour away.

La Selva is close to several towns and cities in both Umbria and Tuscany, including: Montefalco / Bevagna, known for their wonderful wines (20km); Todi (22km); Deruta (23km); Foligno (28km); Spoleto (36km); Assisi (38km); Perugia (40km), Rome (138km); Siena (146km); and Florence (187km).

Your villa and Covid-19

To prevent any possible spread of Covid-19 and to enable you to enjoy a safe and relaxing holiday, all our villas are cleaned to the highest standard possible, and according to the latest Italian health and safety regulations.

Perfect hygiene: to ensure an exceptional level of hygiene in all our villas, we’ve worked with our owners to create a Covid-19 villa management protocol. Based on recommendations from the World Health Organisation, and in compliance with current Italian national law, this protocol goes above and beyond our usual rigorous cleaning standards.

Prior to arrival, your villa will have been fully sanitised, including all surfaces, objects, kitchen items, curtains, sofas, throws, pillows, toys, and in and around the pool. You are welcome to ask for a detailed list of the entire cleaning procedure we do after each departure and before welcoming new guests to the property.

The owner of this house has complied with the following standards:

• To ensure the necessary information concerning social distancing and the use of masks is available to all guests
• To guarantee availability of and accessibility to hand hygiene systems with hydro-alcoholic solutions and soaps in all inside areas of, and pertaining to, the villa
• To guarantee cleaning and disinfection of all areas according to national authority guidelines. Further information is available on request
• For the swimming pool: to guarantee the efficacy of the water treatments, while respecting legal limits (the parameter for free active chlorine in the pool is between 1.0 – 1.5 mg/l; combined chlorine ≤ 0.40 mg/l; pH 6.5 – 7.5 or equivalent oxygen)
• For air conditioning systems: to guarantee the air re-circulation function is switched off and, according to the manufacturer’s instructions, with the plant in off-mode, to clean the air filters of the heating/cooling plants that use heat pumps, fan coils and convectors, at the end of each stay

For more general information about Covid-19 in Italy, please click here.