Il Riccio

One enters the apartment almost at ground level (there are 4 steps). The entrance is in the living room with big fireplace, two armchairs and a small sofa, an area with bookcase and a dining table. There is a TV (not satellite) and a CD player. The kitchen is on the left, with fridge and freezer, gas cooker, microwave and electric oven. The kitchen moreover has a lot of working space.

The double bedroom (that can also be made up as a twin room) is on the right side of the living room. The second bedroom is only twin and has the entrance close to the entrance door, but going some steps down.

The apartment has one bathroom, with bath, bidet and shower. The apartment is in an old farmhouse with 4 other apartments. One of these is being rented as well (see Casa Porcospino for details). The pool is shared with the other apartments, but guests have their own pool furniture.

There is a washing machine shared with the other rental apartment.

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Prices of this two bedroomed apartment:

The arrival and departure days are totally flexible but preferably not on Saturdays and never on Sundays.

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Availability of Il Riccio:

2011:

All was OK, we enjoyed ourselves. Only problem were the horse-flies around the pool. We had to protect the children. We do not expect the owner will be able to do something about this.

2010:

Dear Saskia and Willemijn

We thoroughly enjoyed staying in Il Riccio, partly because of its remote and beautiful setting, and partly because it has not been spoiled.  Many English owners of cottages rip out all the features of the houses they buy, ruin the interiors by putting in such modern features as smoked glass partitions and the like, and furnish them with wholly inappropriate modern furniture.  It always takes me a long time to find a cottage which is sensitively restored, and I use the photographs of interiors on websites to check them.  There is an archetypal boring English suburb near London called Surbiton, with unpleasant houses which often have tasteless modern fittings and furniture.  We always refer to horrible modern treatment of cottages by saying that they are furnished in the style of Surbiton.  We go abroad to see cottages which are as unlike Surbiton as possible!  The Redmaynes are to be congratulated on the way in which they have restored Il Riccio, in a style which is not English, and appeared to us to be genuinely Italian.  This aspect of a cottage is more important to us than having ultra-modern equipment, and we always avoid cottages which have been ruined.

We were lucky to be there at the time of year when we could eat ripe figs and plums from the garden, and having breakfast of freshly picked fruit on the beautiful terrace was a lovely feature of the cottage.

You may have heard that we had water all over the kitchen floor when a pipe burst under the sink.  Everything was handled very efficiently by Jim, with the help of Peter from downstairs, and any damage was prevented.  The only problem was that we had put the relatively large amount of food left by the Redmaynes in a cupboard at floor level, and much of it was ruined by the water.  We are sorry that so much had to be thrown away.

We really enjoyed the visit to Montelabate, and it many ways it was the highlight of our stay in Umbria.  We are grateful to you for arranging this visit.

Your website was very helpful indeed, with a great deal of really useful information.

Yours sincerely, Joanna and Christopher P.

The owners ask a downpayment of 40% of the rental.
The balance should be paid one month prior to arrival.
There is no security deposit.

Villa in Umbria is an intermediary and as such rents out holiday homes and apartments on behalf of their owners. We do not receive any money from clients. When you book we will be sending an agreement in which you will find the bank details of the owners.

We know each vacation rental personally and also the owners of all the holiday rentals we have in our portfolio.

Villa in Umbria has been operating as an intermediary since January 2005 and you can check our Italian VAT number (Partita IVA) to verify our existence. Our partita IVA is IT02781540543.

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