You, dear Home, are situated at the top of a little hill, in the midst of great panoramic and natural riches, embraced by mountains forested in oak and chestnut trees.

Tuscany, that part of Arezzo is immediately behind those mountains and our town, Monte S. Maria Tiberina, gracefully dominates the valley.
The river (Erchi) flows past a short distance away, and the place is inhabited by a multitude of wild fauna: deer, wild boar, hares, pheasants, squirrels and porcupines while your nights host owls and other nocturnal animals.

Hawks, falcons and other birds of prey frequent your skies while your evenings in June are resplendent with fireflies, tiny twinkling diamonds flickering in the surrounding countryside.

We love you, our ancient mansion, from the first moment we saw you.

We love you as did the families of the country people who lived here before we came and who still come back today to see you, asking our permission to visit you again, expressing their wonder and love at every corner and voicing the memories of a by gone life.

The first time we visited you, you were in poor shape yet your beauty and majesty stood there, unchanged.
We have restored you with the attention and respect which you deserve, re-using all the timber the beams, the stones and the bricks which appertained to you, acquiring only the missing pieces, destroyed by Time or despoiled by unscrupulous adventurers, in the decades during which you were left abandoned.
We have retained and conserved everything possible, keeping intact your uneven walls and the curved window-sill of the first floor window, notwithstanding the perplexity of our friend, Antonello (to whom with Maurizio, Stefano and other workers, go the praise and credit for this most beautiful work) who must have believed us mad. He continued to ask “But do you really wish to keep everything?”

You have surprised us with the gift of an antique amphora partially embedded in a wall and discovered only after the collapse of the wall during reconstruction work. It was probably used in medieval times to wash clothes.
We have not succeeded in finding all the missing parts of the outside section, but we have kept that which was there: one day, who knows, we will try to reconstruct it.