Experience Italy in a way you never dreamed possible!
May and June Last Minute Specials!
Experience the best of Italy: join us for these most special tours. Come to our Assisi countryside home for a "banquet" dinner.
Spaces limited! Join us in Perugia on July 18th for my Umbria Jazz FESTAtour - as we share the excitement of Umbria Jazz with the Perugians!
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Join us for these unforgettable shared, small-group IN-COMPAGNIA tours:
August 2, 13 - Rural Life Revisited - read more
August 8 - Bevagna/Montefalco - read more
August 9, 12 - Assisi and Spello - read more
August 10 - Perugia/Deruta - read more
Cooking classes:
August 4 - cooking class in our farmhouse - spaces strictly limited! - read more
Note: feel free to request these tours or other tours on date of your preference
Euro up? Enjoy Italy More... for Less!
Euro up?? No need to miss the wonders of Italy!
* See TOURS page for various economical tour options
* Prepare for a "self-guided tour" with my "cappuccino chat"
* Join us for an Umbrian "banquet" in our Assisi countryside home.
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Rental Offers
*Lovely 2 bedroom-2 bath apartment within the walls of the Historic Center of Assisi. Owned by an American - so all the comforts including ADSL, DW, washing machine and satelite TV- even on-site parking! Discounts on regular prices if you reference this website and larger discounts for 10 day or longer bookings.
*4-bedroom, 4-bath villa with pool just 15 minutes from Perugia city center is available for rent - just in time for Umbria Jazz! (See Umbriajazz.org) Cook available and various extra services.
Last-minute offer: only 1800 E per week.
*Beautifully-restored apartments in 16th c. family "palazzo" in
Assisi's quiet medieval backstreets. Family-owners live right next door
and welcome you with dinner in their home soon after your arrival. Low off-season rates available.
June availability with special discounted rates!
*Young couple renting small, well-appointed apartment in their home just outside Perugia's centro storico: kitchen, bathroom, spacious double room, small
single room - and space to add a sofa bed. Easy access to public transportation.
*A friend of ours rents a small, cozy apartment in Arezzo at very reasonable rates. Gianna is also a superb guide - her tours of Piero della
Francesca sites in Arezzo and area are not to be missed!... and these tours
can also include lunch in her country home. Feel free to contact me for further details.
Do check out many new additions here on the site, including:
- new articles on our life on the land in the late 70's (with photos! - see "Memoirs of Rural Life" in the Anne's Insights section of the homepage; articles frequently added here, though, no, I am not writing "the book"!)
- new tours here in Umbria with me, as well as elsewhere in Italy with superb guide colleagues
- new special "non-tour" events here in Umbria, eg., dinners twice weekly in private 15th c. home in Assisi medieval backstreets, Saturday night dancing and feasting with "the locals" in the Assisi countryside and... more new events to come
- new recipes (regularly added to site)
Please do remember to keep an eye on www.annesitaly.com, a "living" website: additions regularly and frequently!
My articles also appear on the Slow Travel website - see www.slowtrav.com.