“You would experience a great pleasure in looking at this region from the height of the hills: in fact, it would seem to you as if you were gazing not at a territory, but at a painting wrought with incredible mastery: such copious variety, such felicitous disposition, that wherever the eyes come to rest they draw delight…”
Pliny the Younger
About Casa Nova SRL
Casa Nova SRL is a limited company (“Società a Responsibilità Limitata”) and an “agriturismo” under Italian law, owned by an British couple.
Its full title is Società Agricola Casa Nova SRL. (Partita IVA, Codice Fiscale and CCIAA (UMBRIA) inscription number: 01764240519; N. REA: PG – 237134; codice SDI univoco W7YVJK9; PEC: thcasanovaumbria@mypec.eu).
The registered address for legal purposes (sede legale) and the location of the business (sede operativo) is:
Via Comunaglia, 251, Loc. S. Anna, Umbertide (PG) 06019, Italia
We fell in love with this valley when we were students, cycling through it in 1988 on an artistic pilgrimage, following the trail of the many Renaissance artists who worked in this area. We promised ourselves that one day we would buy here.
It took a while to realise that dream. When we bought the main farmhouse and land in 2003, Casa Nova had been an organic fruit farm for some 20 years but the fruit trees were failing and the farmhouse had more holes in the roof than we had buckets. We spent the next 20-plus years investing in bringing the estate back to life in ways that respect and enhance the natural beauty of this exceptional location.
This has included restoring the main farmhouse (Il Casale), building Casa dell’Ortolano, taking out most of the old fruit trees and replanting olives, and starting Umbria’s first (and only) specialist iris nursery, with a display garden that opens to the public in May of each year. When you holiday here, we (sometimes quite literally) plough the income from holiday rentals back into our stewardship of the land.
Meet the people behind Casa Nova
Patricia Robertson
“I’m a lawyer who is also a passionate gardener. I believe in the restorative power of time spent in the company of plants. I wanted our agriturismo to feed both body and soul, supplying top quality olive oil and beautiful plants, and providing holidays in one of the most unspoilt parts of Italy, in our much-loved Umbrian Eden. ”
Dr Tom Henry
“It is no coincidence that we ended up here, centrally placed between Florence, Siena, Perugia, Assisi, Urbino, and Rome – all the places whose artists I have studied over many years. Although nowadays I am as often to be found on the tractor as in the archive!”
Building paradise takes time…
Il Casale in 2003, before restoration
Camping kitchen, Christmas 2003
Designing Casa dell’Ortolano in 2005
Curious?
If you would like to enquire about holidaying at Casa Nova, please get in touch.