Barbara e Giancarlo

A dream which came true

 For many years we have cultivated our love for the country, wandering about Lazio, Umbria and Tuscany.

 Fascinated from ancient farms demolished in the middle of uncultivated fields, abandoned from the people who cultivated them when Italy used to be an agricultural country, we have imagined to give life to a barn and to reactivate that relationship with the earth that had been interrupted.

 We substantially looked for a place that allowed us to live in a different dimension from the city life and to share it with our friends.

 Thus we started our search of a place with a soul, a character, where we could add our imprint.  

The most beautiful places were, however,  too far from Rome, where we were working ,  many beautiful houses needed a huge work to become as functional as we wanted.  In the meantime, in fact, we had thought about turning this dream into a project of job: a receptive structure, we imagined a  'inn.' The name brought back to our memory a place where you can sit and discuss in front of  a fireplace, drink some wine, where travellers feel at home.

Barbara e Giancarlo

 Barbara, after some years in a private company, at present manages the human resources at CIR ( Italian Council for Refugees). She loves her job a lot also because it allows her to devote her efforts to a humanitarian cause. Giancarlo is schizophrenically divided between his occupations of “doing-everything” (mason, bleaches, renovator...), pleasant farmer and marketing and direct communication advisor. He is convinced that the experience gained in building this house will take him as soon as possible to realize another housing project....and tomorrow?

 What we imagine is to working in the field of tourism and agriculture, that according to us, are the two most important resources in Italy.

We have decided to stay near the highway to Rome, but dipped in the fields and in the woods. After almost one year of search we arrived here. There was nothing, no cultivations even. The eldest in the village told us they used to cultivate that area when they walked down the hill to the river to get some water.
The first time we saw it there was a marvellous light at sunset and on the hill where the house would have later on been built, a wild boar run followed by its four pups.

Both of us immediately fell in love with it.
After four years of a rather difficult  job, we obtained what you can now see in the pitctures.
'Poggio Paradiso' came to life, but we are aware, as everybody else having a country house, that our work will never end.

Barbara e Giancarlo con  Susy e Sissy