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Feb 21
1 min

What I Did Last October At Villa Palazzetta During Our Mandatory 14-Day Self Quarantine

This video is made from 39 still images selected from more than 500 cloud photos taken during our 14-day Covid self-quarantine at the...

Feb 14
2 min

Look Who Recently Came To (And Made) Dinner At Our Beautiful Villa.

Giada de Laurentiis, Bobby Flay and a big film crew spent a week filming an episode for their new series in September of 2019 (before...

Jul 2, 2020
2 min

Yes, There Is Life In Italy. And Our Garden Is Living Proof Of That. Thanks To Matteo And Lisa Jane.

Yes, there is life in Italy.

Apr 23, 2019
2 min

A Birth In The Family

We bought Villa Palazzetta because of its incredible location only five minutes walk from the historic city center. We also bought it...

Apr 8, 2019
1 min

Welcome Home!

We arrived this spring on April 7th after visiting Matera, an ancient town in southern Italy that was just named one of the Cultural...

Nov 14, 2018
1 min

Our Ape Calessino

If you been to an Italian hill town then you've seen Piaggios. After WWII Piaggio invented this small engine, three wheel vehicle as an...

Oct 26, 2018
1 min

Olive Oil - Start to Finish

Another fall means another olive oil harvest. Matteo Turchi our fantastic groundskeeper did a fabulous job with this year's olive crop....

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