Umbria Rental villa near Antognolla golf course "Gudiolo"

Accommodates up to 6
(3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms)
in the main house
OR
up to 10 with additional
2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
in the tower
Available July - August

Guests are welcome to the seasonal produce from the villa's herb and vegetable garden

Golf at nearby Antognolla Golf Course

Pool (33 ft x 16 ft)

Main house
2 double bedrooms with en suite bathrooms (1 with bath tub, 1 with shower),
1 bedroom with 2 beds,
1 bathroom with shower,
2 sitting rooms with fireplaces,
study,
dining room,
kitchen with dishwasher,
laundry room with clothes washer and dryer.

Optional Tower - not available separately
1 double bedroom,
1 bedroom with 2 beds,
bathroom with shower,
study.

Domestic help 3 times a week, broadband (wireless),
phone/fax, TV with DVD for movies (no satellite), stereo

Extra domestic help or baby sitting at 12 euro per hour

Umbrian home cooked dinners - 3 delicious courses incl. local wine 30 euro per person

Umbrian cookery lessons at home - 70 euro per session + cost of ingredients
(traditional dolci a speciality)

Yoga classes at home inc. aryuveda massage at €60/hr

Special wine tour available

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The main house covered in virginia creeper	Through the arch by the tower

The covered outdoor dining area is enormous - perfect for a long. lazy lunch or a candle-lit dinner!

The spacious ground floor sitting room	The dining room

The well-supplied kitchen	The twin bedded room

The huge master bedroom with newly remodeled en suite bathroom

The double bedroom forms part of the charming top floor suite

The pool seen from the terrace in the morning	The pool in the evening

The tower is an optional extra available only with the main house and never rented separately

The tower by day	... and by night

The double bedroom on the top-but-one floor	The simple bathroom on the middle floor

The bedroom with two beds on the ground floor	A private outdoor area by the tower's ground floor bedroom door

Gorgeous Gudiolo is the house for you if you like ... hidden corners, winding staircases, quiet nooks and ample spaces all comfortably wrapped in elegance and liberally sprinkled with antiques and original features.

The tower is strictly for the fit who enjoy stairs and stunning views. There’s a double bedroom, a twin bedroom and a plain and simple bathroom, as well as a study with hammock and library on the very top floor. Harry Potter fans are kindly requested to bring their own owl as the Umbrian gufo conceded the tower to summer visitors some time ago. The more serious minded in the party will find the main house equally atmospheric, but rather more comfortably gracious - please bear in mind this is a very old house, so a few of the lintels are quite low by modern standards.

The ground floor of the house offers a cool and airy sitting room with an old brick floor, traditional open fireplace, great oak beams and characterful touches like the ancient wooden window catches. There’s a dining room beside the sitting room and both rooms open onto a large terrace with an enormous dining table and a flight of terracotta angels smiling down on you from the wall. The kitchen is generously equipped to make cooking a pleasure and there’s a useful laundry room next door. Just beyond the kitchen is another shady terrace with a couple of hammocks for lazing by the fig tree.

A winding wooden staircase leads to the middle floor with the master bedroom and its new handsome en suite bathroom, the twin bedroom and a large bathroom, also brand new. In addition there's a large study on this floor. The narrow wooden stairs carry on up to the top of the house, where you’ll find a delightfully cosy self-contained suite. There’s a small sitting room with its very own back door for slipping out to walk in the woods, a comfortable double bedroom with en suite bathroom, a host of intriguing photos and an inviting chaise longue. A charming suite for those who would sometimes like a little privacy in the midst of the family.

Perugia is 20 minutes drive away, Gubbio and Lake Trasimeno 30 and Florence 1½ hours. For the golfer, the 18 hole Antognolla championship golf course is less than a 5-minute drive away.

History, views and golf ... it’s just got to be gorgeous Gudiolo!

very pleasant stay

great house
great countryside
nice country around (Perugia....)

in a nutshell, we had a very good week at Gudiolo and probably will come back.

Richard Pommier, Paris.

Gudiolo is a well-appointed, well-stocked house, stupendously sited, with spectacular views. The pool area is very nicely designed and thought-out. Inside there is a good range of fine rooms - the house is excellent for large parties, because so spacious while granting privacy through the arrangement of the bedroom/bathroom suites. An extremely convivial house: good kitchen and indoor dining room, and a very pleasant sitting-room, as well as a dining terrace.


On the steps of the tower	A face in every window (nearly!)

Georgina Paul, Oxford.

This was our third stay at Gudiolo (and our fifth year using Summer’s Leases). It’s like coming home to visit an old friend. This house has enchanted all the friends we have shared it with. The views over peaceful hills and valleys, the sounds of the cuckoo birds (not a clock, but real birds!) in the mornings and evenings: these are a few of our favorite memories of Gudiolo. This year, even my fears about the funky stairs, unsuspecting steps and low beams with one of our traveling companions, who is 85 year old, were unfounded. Gentle warnings about looking up and down when moving about the house were heeded without incident.

Umbertide with its Wednesday morning market and every day grocery stores is within 15 minutes and our favorite hilltowns, Cortona, Montepulciano, Città della Pieve, Assisi and, of course, Lago Trasimeno, are all within easy reach. But, many times, our friends were content just to relax and enjoy Gudiolo with its comfy living room, the sunny patio or lounge by the pool.

When we didn’t eat in, a number of restaurants with good food and good value were found in nearby towns. And if you find yourself, as we did on a rainy afternoon, in want of entertainment, reading past comments from Gudiolo’s guest book is great fun. For example, we learned that a champagne cork, launched at a 78 degree angle from the patio, will hit the pool. Hilarious! And sorry we missed a cinghiale (wild boar) giving birth by the pool.

Each of us has returned with our favorite stories and memories of this special time and magical place. It wouldn't surprise me one bit, if we and our friends didn’t find our way back to our house in Umbria, our dear friend, Gudiolo. After all, we have a champagne cork or two to experiment with.


Dining in ...	and dining out

Bill and Margene Marvin, WA.

We loved the location and homely feel to the property which was full of character. Well appointed and catered for the numbers of a large party in terms of cooking appliances , large pans and serving dishes and plenty of seating, dining space etc. It felt like ‘home from home’ - wanted to stay there and explore the locality more. Loved all the local markets - fantastic fresh produce inspired our son who is a professional chef who cooks Italian food at the River cafe in London - so we dined very well!! Would love to go back when the swimming pool is open.


Dining out in March	The whole group

Chris and Sue Fincham and family, East Sussex.

We absolutely loved Gudiolo. Because we were eight people (rising to ten half way through) but all not in couples, we needed to use the tower (not so good for anyone who needs night visits to the loo!)

The pool area was lovely, enhanced by a drinks fridge and shade canopy one end. The terrace was a perfect place to eat out with stunning views.

We all agreed it was the most wonderful house and location - definitely on the agenda for a repeat visit - we didn’t do half the sight seeing we intended because the weather was so good we were loathe to leave the pool!

Rosemary Collins, Belgium.

We really enjoyed our stay. The house is in a beautiful position, is spacious and airy and is well equipped. We loved having our meals (often using the BBQ) on the veranda overlooking the pool and the view to faraway hills, having had a quiet drink at the other end of the house to watch the sunset.

We enjoyed the place so much that we spent far more time there than we had intended and as a result doubtless deprived ourselves of many cultural highlights!

Robert Francis, London.

Price per Week		Main House only for up to 6		*With Tower for up to 10**
(Saturday to Saturday)			Equivalent guide prices		Equivalent guide prices
Rental period		UK pounds	US dollars	UK pounds	US dollars
July 9 - September 3	2011	£ 2,150		£ 2,650
Prices held for 2011 ! Dates in blue mean the pool will be open Our prices include everything except pool towels and phone calls * The tower is never rented separately ! Summer's Leases charges in UK pounds See our booking conditions