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Our journey began over 30 years ago when we first visited the sunflower strewn hills of Montepulciano in southern Tuscany and famous for its red wine. With friends and family, we rented a modest old Italian villa which I recall didn’t have air conditioning, but it did have a pool and was the start of a love affair with the Italian lifestyle. Year on year our appetite grew for all things Italian and as our group expanded, we stayed at many different villas and farmhouses in different towns and cities most years and always in either Tuscany or Umbria. In the latter half of 2019 our love for the country of Italy was about to change our lives for good. After several months of travelling the length and breadth of Italy in search of the perfect property almost by accident we stumbled across Casale Zeno. The drive down the unmade twisty gravel road lined with Arizona cypress led us to what can best be described as a ‘bruto’ building as the Italians would say. The harsh grey cemented building with a separate dependence and run-down garage didn’t really offer us any love or feeling, but the view did! The 13 bedroomed agriturismo property had been popular with the Italians for years. After closing the business some years ago, the property and land started to look run down and certainly required some loving. It took us all of five minutes to make our decision and within six months we had signed sealed and delivered our dream and moved in February 2020. Our first project was to renovate the old ‘dependence’ building which had been used as storage and together we managed to complete a full refurbishment in the September of the same year. The dependence is now named Casa Isla after our eldest granddaughter. In the last two years we have completed a full renovation of the awful grey cement façade bringing to life the old stone Umbrian features along with a full redesign of the pool and surrounds. In August 2022 we finally finished the second apartment now named Casa Eva after our second granddaughter. Casa Eva like Casa Isla is a two bedroomed self-contained apartment but with Eva there are two separate bathrooms one en-suite to the main double bedroom and a separate bathroom off the corridor of the second twin bedroom. Welcome to our home !