The Farmholidays
On the edge of MORRA, in the Comune of CITTA’ DI CASTELLO, on the border bertween
TUSCANY and UMBRIA...
in the green shade of a pine grove, one finds the ANTIQUE VILLA of the Nicasi family
dating back to the Seicento with its surrounding DEPENDANCIES and private chapel.
Within the park a series of building give testimony to the various rural activities
of peasant families, dependent on the Nicasi farm holdings. There is thus, "La Tinaia"
(winery), salon with a high beamed ceiling and a FIRE-PLACE with the Vitelli family
coat of arms, external veranda, ideal side for parties and meetings too.
There is the cantina (cellar), the "casciaro" (cheese room), the forno(bread oven)
and an old granary surrounding "La Terrazza"
La Terrazza, a large farm house dating from 1882, the name was originally tied to
its type of roof which was, in fact, well exposed to the sun and was created
as a large terrace in which were dried corn, wheat and chestnuts. Once dried, they
were then gathered and deposited in the rooms and in the internal silos. The was
the principal function of the building "la terrazza", but there are still some contadini
today who have memories on another time of farming activities on the Nicasi estate.
In times different from today, in fact, these were also rooms ideal for the celebrating
of the end of harvest,or of a birth, when one found oneself, there under the pines
listening to the sound of an accordions and in the light of littlle fires lighted
in the surrounding avenues.
The property has the typical and rural idea of the ancients FARM HOUSES, now confortables
APARTMENTS in the beautiful view of the ANTIQUE VILLA and DEPENDANCIES. There are
peace and silence, only the sounds of the country, the village and of the principal
church’bells (it’is in fact into the property).
Today the FARMHOLIDAYS ( AGRITOURISM) is constituted of 2 or 3 independents FARM
HOUSES or APARTMENTS of about 100 meters (1100 square feet) each, which
are tied by an external staircase, with a common laundry, a room for local products,
a recreation room (ping pong, biliardino) and a beautiful SWIMMING POOL. External
barbecues and baby park too. We are isolated in the tranquility of nature but at
the some time at the center of the village of MORRA, with services and stores and
at only 100 meters from the sports center (soccer, tennis, boules). The apartments
have central heating which allows, the FARM HOLIDAYS to be open years round. The
ample space of the rooms makes the APARTMENTS also well adapted to groups.
The FARMHOUSES furnished with period pieces and the FIRE-PLACES from the Seicento
(17th century). The sinks are the stone lavandini of the original dwelling. The
shelves in the kitchen are the originals tables on which the contadini placed their
bread hot from the wood-fried ovens. The stone walls are plastered, the pavement
and ceiling are in the original old terracotta tiles, with wood beams. Each APARTMENT
has a living room, kitchen and three bedrooms and batrooms with shower (of which
there also one for the disabled). The hosts are the Nicasi family who live in the
ANTIQUE VILLA next "la Terrazza".
