Italy Vino 15. Nebbiolo d'Alba 2008
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Farmhouse in northern Marche
Farmhouse in northern Marche
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Country House for sale in Le Marche Italy 2018
A STUNNING OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE A LATE 18th CENTURY COUNTRY HOUSE (390 sq.mt.) €750,000 – Home or Business Opportunity
This comprises 7 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, 3 Living rooms + Lush 1 acre Landscaped Garden with Olive, Cherry, Walnut, Pomegranate, Caca, Fig, Apple and Quince trees.
Purchased as a Family Home, this prestigious farmhouse built in the late 18th century, was lovingly restored and updated, yet, retains most of its original features. It has evolved as a place to frequently host friends and family providing peace and tranquillity. It is situated within a kilometre of the historical village of Ponzano di Fermo. (Marche Region of East Central Italy). It is just 13km from the beach at Pto San Giorgio. It offers a 360-degree panoramic views onto surrounding Hill-top Medieval Villages and countryside.
With many recent additions this property offers all the amenities and characteristics for transforming into a small Boutique Hotel and or a “Wellness” Centre, as it has recently been awarded Country House status for that purpose.
This extensive Property is accessed through tall, electric wrought iron Gates and is entirely fenced, making it very ‘Child & Pet Friendly’. The Private Driveway is bordered by many olive trees, off a very quiet provincial road. It is set at the bottom of the long, gravelled driveway, which winds around the different garden areas. It has a 5 x 10 metre tiled swimming pool, in a secluded garden, but just a stone’s throw away from the main house allowing morning swimmers not to disturb late risers!
The various areas of the mature landscaped gardens form a ‘variety’ of spaces, dotted around the property, to satisfy the expectations of the of family and friends, from ‘open sunny’ areas, to more ‘Shaded Grassy’ places, to the various ‘Under-Cover Loggia’ areas ideal for ‘Al Fresco’ wining & dining, or just purely relaxing.
The Main ‘Casale’
Ground floor – (could function as a self-contained apartment)
Living Room
Originally two rooms, which have now been modernised into one larger one, has the wonderful characteristic feature of the original ‘Cotto Pianelle’ floor. These beautiful floors extend all through the whole of the downstairs area, and are also present in the 1st floor bathrooms. Lots of natural light comes from the three sets of patio doors opening onto the gardens. A focal point is the fire place which has an open wrought iron fire basket with oak surround on a raised hearth. The house and garden have been restored in keeping with all the historical original characteristics, while transforming it into a modern and comfortable abode.
Reading Room
Still integral part of the Lounge, but really considered ‘adjacent’ to it, is a cosy Reading/ Study/ Office room, with its floor to ceiling Library area.
Dining Room
Between the Lounge & the Kitchen is a pleasant separate Dining Room with built-in units. Two windows face onto the main front garden, towards the swimming pool. There is a wall fresco commissioned by American artist Sheila Kern.
Kitchen and Utility Room
One of the main features is the wonderful kitchen (34 sq. metres). It has a traditional ‘Travi’ ceiling, which is 4 meters tall at its highest point. It is furnished with oak units and tiled worktops and has a traditional Pizza Oven, three sinks, a De-Longhi multi-fuel range cooker and a massive Olive beam over the recessed cooker area. The Patio doors to the front open into a kitchen garden. Adjacent to the main kitchen, the utility and linen room houses a gas boiler.
Shower Room + Separate Storage Room -6 sq m
Fully tiled shower room, toilet, bidet and large wash basin
First Floor – 3 Bedrooms, 1 Kitchen, 2 bathrooms, Galleried Library, Laundry room, Sitting room + Terrace – (could function as a self-contained apartment)
There are three spacious double bedrooms (two on the first floor) & another one along-side the Long Galleried Landing, used as a second library room, reached by a winding staircase. These bedrooms have wooden floors, as does the upstairs library area.
A fully equipped (4x3 sq.m) second fully equipped kitchen with wall to wall built in storage cupboards opens onto the “L” shaped terrace of 72 sq.m with panoramic views over the countryside. The large central landing forms a living room, a traditional design of the period with an original stone fireplace. There are 2 bathrooms each adjacent to the first floor bedrooms. The largest bathroom measures and 14 sq.m. A small wet laundry room is next to the main bedroom, which houses a washing machine and shelving for linen.
ALONG WITH THE MAIN ORIGINAL ‘CASALE’ THERE ARE TWO SELF-CONTAINED UNITS PLUS A SERIES OF OTHER OUT BUILDINGS
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Top10 Recommended Hotels in Caracas, Venezuela
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Top10 Recommended Hotels in Caracas, Venezuela: 1. JW Marriott Caracas *****
2. Eurobuilding Hotel & Suites Caracas *****
3. Renaissance Caracas La Castellana Hotel *****
4. Gran Melia Caracas *****
5. Lidotel Centro Lido Caracas *****
6. Pestana Caracas Premium City & Conference Hotel *****
7. Cayena-Caracas *****
8. Hotel Alex Caracas ***
9. Waldorf Hotel Boutique ****
10. Mariani International Tower
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1. Av. Venezuela con Calle Mohedano, El Rosal,, 1060 Caracas, Venezuela, Price range $109 - $219
JW Marriot is in the trendy El Rosal area, and offers elegant interiors and a garden pool. Guests can enjoy South American and Japanese cuisine, the well-equipped gym and sauna.
2. Final Calle La Guairita, 1060 Caracas, Venezuela, Price range $40 - $87
Featuring a swimming pool, a fitness center and a sauna, Eurobuilding Hotel & Suites Caracas offers stylish rooms in the financial district. The center of the city is a 15 minute drive away.
3. Eugenio Mendoza Con Calle Urdaneta,, 1060 Caracas, Venezuela, Price range $109 - $218
Featuring a panoramic rooftop swimmimg pool, a sauna room and modern fitness facilities, the Renaissance Caracas is conveniently located just 2 blocks from Altamira subway station.
4. Ave. Casanova C.C El Recreo Sabana Grande, 1050 Caracas, Venezuela, Price range $50 - $69
Featuring an outdoor pool with hydro-massage tub and sauna, the Gran Melia is a luxury hotel in Caracas’s Sabana Grande. It offers elegant rooms in classical European style and 3 world-class restaurants.
5. Av. Tamanaco, Urb. El Rosal, Municipio Chacao, 1060 Caracas, Venezuela, Price range $101 - $161
Located in the Centro Lido Financial Center, Hotel Centro Lido offers modern rooms with free Wi-Fi and a flat-screen TV. Facilities include a gym and a spa.
6. Primera Avenida de Santa Eduvigis, 1071 Caracas, Venezuela, Price range $96 - $156
Featuring a top-floor outdoor pool with 360 degrees views of the city, the Pestana offers elegant accommodations in contemporary style. It includes a jacuzzi and a gym overlooking El Avilla Mountain.
7. Av. Don Eugenio Mendoza, entre calles El Bosque y José Angel Lamas. La Castellana, 1060 Caracas, Venezuela, Price range $297 - $377
Offering an outdoor pool and a restaurant, Cayena-Caracas is a gorgeous, modern hotel located in Caracas. It features excellent views of the city and El Avila Mountain.
8. Esquina Ferrenquin a La Cruz, La Candelaria Caracas , 1010 Caracas, Venezuela, Price range $24 - $64
Located 250 m from La Candelaria square and 500 m from the subway station, Hotel Alex Caracas features a gym, a spa, and a restaurant. Breakfast and free Wi-Fi are provided.
9. Av. La Industria, Esquina Campo Elias a Puente Anauco,Hotel Waldorf PB, Urbanización La Candelaria, Caracas, 1010 Caracas, Venezuela, Price range $62 - $63
Located in Caracas, Waldorf Hotel Boutique offers an outdoor swimming pool. Built in 1944, the property is within just 1.8 km of Fine Arts Museum of Caracas and 1.8 km of National Gallery of Art. The property has a garden, as well as a restaurant that serves Mediterranean and Italian cuisine.
10. 1070 Macaracuay, 1070 Caracas, Venezuela, Price range $30
Offering a fitness center, Mariani International Tower is located in Caracas, just 2 minutes’ walk from San Luis Rey Square. Free WiFi access is available in all areas.
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RAIUNO-Speciale TVSETTE su Agriturismo Tenuta San Marcello
Uno speciale di TVSETTE (settimanale del TG1) dedicato al nostro agriturismo Tenuta San Marcello: una splendida struttura che si trova tra le colline marchigiane e produce due vini DOC tipici della zona: la Lacrima di Morro d'Alba e il Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi.
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La Casa Del Pescatore - Trapani - Italy
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La Casa Del Pescatore hotel city: Trapani - Country: Italy
Address: Via Torre Pali 10; zip code: 91100
La Casa Del Pescatore provides self-catering accommodation located in Trapani. Free Wi-Fi access is available throughout. Air-conditioned apartments come with a balcony, flat-screen TV and kitchenette. The private bathroom includes a hairdryer.
-- Le Casa Del Pescatore vous propose un hébergement indépendant à Trapani. Une connexion Wi-Fi est mise gracieusement à votre disposition dans l'ensemble de l'établissement.
-- La Casa Del Pescatore está situada en Trapani y ofrece alojamientos independientes. Hay conexión Wi-Fi gratuita en todas las instalaciones.
-- Das La Casa Del Pescatore ist eine Unterkunft zur Selbstverpflegung in Trapani. WLAN nutzen Sie in allen Bereichen kostenfrei. Die klimatisierten Apartments verfügen über einen Balkon, einen Flachbild-TV und Küchenzeile.
-- La Casa del Pescatore biedt accommodatie met eigen kookgelegenheid in Trapani. Er is overal gratis WiFi beschikbaar. De appartementen met airconditioning zijn voorzien van een balkon, een flatscreen-tv en een kitchenette.
-- La Casa Del Pescatore si trova nella città di Trapani e offre alloggi a ristorazione indipendente e la connessione Wi-Fi gratuita nell'intero edificio.
-- La Casa Del Pescatore公寓位于特拉帕尼（Trapani），提供自助式公寓式客房，设有覆盖各处的免费无线网络连接。 空调公寓设有阳台、平面电视、小厨房和带吹风机的私人浴室。 客人可以在附近的咖啡馆享用美式自助早餐。 埃里切（Erice）距离公寓有15公里，位于特拉帕尼（Trapani）的海港区。码头提供前往埃加迪（Aegadian）群岛的渡船服务，距离Casa Del Pescatore公寓有100米。
-- Obiekt La Casa Del Pescatore położony jest w miejscowości Trapani i oferuje zakwaterowanie z wyżywieniem we własnym zakresie. Na terenie całego obiektu można korzystać z bezpłatnego bezprzewodowego dostępu do Internetu.
-- Апартаменты La Casa Del Pescatore с собственной кухней находятся в Трапани. В них работает бесплатный WiFi. В апартаментах с балконом и мини-кухней установлены кондиционер и телевизор с плоским экраном.
-- La Casa Del Pescatore erbjuder lägenheter med självhushåll i Trapani. Det finns gratis Wi-Fi finns i alla utrymmen. De luftkonditionerade lägenheterna har balkong, platt-TV och pentry. I det egna badrummet finns en hårtork.
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Riviera del Conero, Santa Maria di Portonovo (manortiz)
Santa Maria di Portonovo, romanesque treasure onto the sea
Portonovo and the related Adriatic coastline is surely known by many as a place where to spend your holidays. For whom travelling and passing by this area, we advise you to go and visit the church of Santa Maria di Portonovo, that is one of the maximum examples of Roman art in Marche.
It stands on an enchanting location upon a little rock cliff drawn into the sea and it is touched by the green Mediterranean scrub characteristic of the Conero Riviera. Indeed, there no exist reliable sources that can certify the history of the beginning of this example of medieval architecture in Marche; henceforth, those who is studying it attempted to make a reconstruction as much adherent to reality of the episodes that brought to its construction.
During the past someone talked about a document that would have been testifying the donation of the ground over the which was built up a Benedictine monastery at Portonovo in 1034; that document is a currently lost and with many doubts about its authenticity.
It is known that Saint Gaudenzio has been living in Portonovo for two years and he has dead over there: therefore, his death represents a good chronological limit to set the construction of the monastery, dated between 1044 and 1050, date matching with morphological characteristics of the building.
The architectural structure of the Church, besides of being particularly impressive, is also very singular: it is a fusion of Greek cross shape, Basilic plant and a Church with chapels parallel-like. External walls have been realized with Conero white stone, whilst internal floor is made by yellow stone and cotto. In the lower side of the building there are several single-lancet windows, while in the elliptic planted Byzantine style cupola there are some double lancet windows.
Santa Maria di Portonovo, together with the adjacent monastic building lived by Benedictine friars, were the only proof of life in Portonovo. The church (already mentioned into a trace of the year 1034) and the environment offered to the brothers in Benedetto the conditions to observe the sacred Rule that imposed them work, pray, humility and anonymity.
The Church was born as place of cult for a Benedictine monastery reaching a remarkable importance in Medieval Marche region; then, was partially destroyed in 1320 because of a land- slide falling from Conero Mountain; on the contrary, that landslide did not spare the monastery, which there has any more trace of. When Benedictine monks abandoned it, the small church was unused for centuries.
Since 1436 the settlement was given to some hermit monks, after having reached the Ancona Chapter of the Cathedral jurisdiction. By the way, the monastery kept having an uneasy life, because of an incursion in 1518 by Turkish troops that contributed to its definitive collapse, very damaged before because of many and continuous landslides. During Napoleonic period the church was used by troops until 1837, when abbot Cesaretto retired himself to hermitage at Portonovo and gave start to a restoration of the church.
During following years and beginning from 1860, the property of the building passed to the Italian Reign, whose institutions did not take care about it: they left it becoming recover even for shepherds and flocks. This went on until when in 1894 the first systematic restoration of the settlement was started by consolidation of the structures and the removal of the nineteenth-century plasters.
New restorations of the set have been started between 1988 and 1995, while in 2002 have been effected archeological diggings that bore to the light a medieval cemetery and allowed to track the foundations of the tower with bells (this tower was known by the documents, but still not yet localized) and to find out latest structures around the church, such as the hermit house.
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