La Volpaia

Rooms description

The five spacious double bedrooms are all ensuite and air-conditioned, with enough wardrobe space and room to relax. Impeccably designed with wooden floors and large windows onto the amazing views, they are decorated in soft muted colours and include important details such as top-quality reading lights and the comfiest pillows. One of the bedrooms is in the separate ground-floor guest house.

All the bedrooms are ensuite with spacious showers and beautiful fluted tiles. The principal ensuite has a bath, too, and double basins.

The bespoke kitchen is handcrafted in oak, with a green metro tile splashback. A central island includes a wine fridge and a breakfast spot and there are doors to the veranda and outdoor dining table. Expertly equipped, including a five-ring gas hob and a double sink in front of the window, it is semi-open-plan to the dining room.

The ground floor has three interconnecting rooms: the kitchen, the dining room, and the sitting room, each with doors out to the terrace. The large wooden dining table seats ten with beautiful lake views to the front and a handmade wooden batten boiserie stair guard to the back. There’s even a piano. The sitting room has a raised wood-burning stove, a TV, a corner sofa and beautiful, made-to-measure wooden shelving on the back wall.

Leisure & Activities

We can tailor-make itineraries, including guided tours of national parks, wine tours or city culture tours. We can book a private chef for your stay or organise cooking lessons for you at the property. Please contact us directly for rates and availability.

Dei Dui Mondi, a music and theatre festival, takes place from mid-June to mid-July in Spoleto, while the world-famous, annual Umbria Jazz festival takes place in Perugia at the start of July (previous artists include Diana Krall, John Legend and Lady Gaga) and its winter counterpart happens over new year in Orvieto. Meanwhile, a high-quality Palio or Medieval festival brings Città della Pieve to life in August every year and Perugia hosts an international chocolate festival in October. Please ask for more details.

Surroundings

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La Volpaia’s location is hard to beat. A 1km gravel road lined with mature cypress trees on either side winds up from Passignano sul Trasimeno, high enough up the hillside to ensure privacy and incredible views and yet Lake Trasimeno, Italy’s fourth largest lake, looks and feels like it is just in front of the house. The pretty Trasimeno Hills are wooded and gently undulating and there is a fully fenced olive grove surrounding the property. Passignano offers the best of a lakeside location throughout the year with wonderful restaurants, an amazing pasticceria and butcher, tennis courts, wakeboarding, SUP hire and other water sports, as well as access to ferries for the islands in the lake, all just five minutes’ drive from the house. The property is the perfect jump-off point for visiting towns and cities in both Umbria and Tuscany – it’s only 15 minutes from Perugia.

La Volpaia is close to several towns and cities in both Umbria and Tuscany, including: Passignano sul Trasimeno (4km); Castiglione del Lago (24km); Perugia (29km); Deruta (42km); Umbertide (43km); Città della Pieve (46km); Montepulciano, which is famed for its wine (50km); Assisi (52km); Spello (55km); Bevagna (59km); Todi (70km); Gubbio (75km); Montefalco (78km); Siena (85km); Spoleto (87km); Orvieto (107km); Florence (127km); and Rome (199km).

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.