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Casale is a great place to center your vist to Abruzzo while at the same time a
perfect getaway from major tourist attractions. It provides peace and tranquility
as well as the opportunity to take enjoyable daytrips to nearby beaches, fortress
towns, and mountains. The onsite manager is Paolo who speaks English and will
answer all your questions.
Contact information:
Stephen Mark Ulissi
301 571 8252
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
ulissi@hotmail.com
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A villa was originally a Roman country house built for the upper classes. According to Pliny the Elder, there were several kinds of villas, the villa urbana,
which was a country seat that could easily be reached from Rome (or another city) for a night or two, and the villa rustica, the farm-house estate,
permanently occupied by the servants who had charge generally of the estate, which would centre on the villa itself, perhaps only seasonally occupied.
There was the domus, a city house for the middle class, and insulae, lower class apartment buildings. Petronius Satyricon describes a wide range of Roman
dwellings. There were a concentration of Imperial villas near the Bay of Naples, especially on the Isle of Capri, at Monte Circeo on the coast and at Antium
(Anzio). Wealthy Romans escaped the summer heat in the hills round Rome, especially around Tibur (Tivoli) and Frascati (cf Hadrian's Villa). Cicero is
said to have possessed no fewer than seven villas, the oldest of which was near Arpinum, which he inherited. Pliny the Younger had three or four, of which
the example near Laurentium is the best known from his descriptions.

Roman writers refer with satisfaction to the self-sufficiency of their villas, where they drank their
own wine and pressed their own oil. This was an affectation of urban arsitocrats playing at being
old-fashioned virtuous Roman farmers, but the economic indepedence of later rural villas was a
symptom of the increasing economic fragmentation of the Roman empire. When complete
working villas were donated to the Christian church, they served as the basis for monasteries that
survived the disruptions of the Gothic War and the Lombards. An outstanding example of such a
villa-turned-monastery was Monte Cassino.
Numerous Roman villas have been meticulously examined in England. Like their Italian
counterparts, they were complete working agrarian societies of fields and vineyards, perhaps
even tileworks or quarries, ranged round a high-status power center with its baths and gardens.
The grand villa at Woodchester preserved its mosaic floors when the Anglo-Saxon parish church
was built (not by chance) upon its site. Burials in the churchyard as late as the 18th century had
to be punched through the intact mosaic floors. The even more palatial villa rustica at Fishbourne
near Winchester was built uncharacteristically as a large open rectangle with porticos enclosing
gardens that was entered through a portico. Towards the end of the 3rd century, Roman towns in
Britain ceased to expand: like patricians near the centre of the empire, Roman Britons withdrew
from the cities to their villas, which entered on a palatial building phase, a "golden age" of villa
life. Villae rusticae are essential in the Empire's economy.
Two kinds of villa plan in Roman Britain may be characteristic of Roman villas in general. The
more usual plan extended wings of rooms all opening onto a linking portico, which might be
extended at right angles, even to enclose a courtyard. The other kind featured an aisled central
hall like a basilica, suggesting the villa owner's magisterial role. The villa buildings were often
independent structures linked by their enclosed courtyards. Timber-framed construction,
carefully fitted with mortices and tenons and dowelled together, set on stone footings, were the
rule, replaced by stone buildings for the important ceremonial rooms. Traces of window glass
have been found as well as ironwork window grilles.
As the Roman Empire collapsed in the fourth and fifth centuries, the villas were more and more
isolated and came to be protected by walls. Though in England the villas were abandoned,
looted, and burned by Anglo-Saxon invaders in the fifth century, other areas had large working
villas donated by aristocrats and territorial magnates to individual monks that often became the
nucleus of famous monasteries. In this way, the villa system of late Antiquity was preserved into
the early Medieval period. Saint Benedict established his influential monastery of Monte Cassino
in the ruins of a villa at Subiaco that had belonged to Nero; there are fuller details at the entry for
Benedict. Around 590, Saint Eligius was born in a highly-placed Gallo-Roman family at the
'villa' of Chaptelat near Limoges, in Aquitaine (now France). The abbey at Stavelot was founded
ca 650 on the domain of a former villa near Liège and the abbey of Vézelay had a similar
founding. As late as 698, Willibrord established an abbey at a Roman villa of Echternach, in
Luxemburg near Trier, which was presented to him by Irmina, daughter of Dagobert II, king of
the Franks. It was economically as self-sufficient as a village and its inhabitants, who might be
legally tied to it as serfs were villeins. The Merovingian Franks inherited the concept, but the
later French term was basti or bastide.
Villa (or its cognates) is part of many Spanish placenames, like Vila Real and Villadiego: a villa
is a town with a charter (fuero) of lesser importance than a ciudad ("city"). When it is associated
with a personal name, villa was probably used in the original sense of a country estate rather than
a chartered town. Later evolution has made the Hispanic distinction between villas and ciudades
a purely honorific one. Madrid is the Villa y Corte, the villa considered to be separate from the
formerly mobile royal court, but the much smaller Ciudad Real was declared ciudad by the
Spanish crown.
In 14th and 15th century Italy, a 'villa' once more connoted a country house, sometimes the
family seat of power like Villa Caprarola, more often designed for seasonal pleasure, usually
located within easy distance of a city. The first examples of Renaissance villa dates back to the
age of Lorenzo de' Medici, and they are mostly located in the Italian region of Tuscany (the
"Medici villas") such as the Villa di Poggio a Caiano by Giuliano da Sangallo (begun in 1470) or
the Villa Medici in Fiesole (since 1450), probably the first villa created under the instructions of
Leon Battista Alberti, who theorized in his De re aedificatoria the features of the new idea of
villa. The gardens are from that period considered as a fundamental link between the residential
building and the country outside. From Tuscany the idea of villa was spread again through Italy
and Europe.
Rome had more than its share of villas with easy reach of the small sixteenth-century city: the
progenitor, the first villa suburbana built since Antiquity, was the Belvedere or palazzetto,
designed by Antonio Pollaiuolo and built on the slope above the Vatican Palace. The Villa
Madama, the design of which, attributed to Raphael and carried out by Giulio Romano in 1520,
was one of the most influential private houses ever built; elements derived from Villa Madama
appeared in villas through the 19th century. Villa Albani was built near the Porta Salaria. Other
are the Villa Borghese; the Villa Doria Pamphili (1650); the Villa Giulia of Pope Julius III
(1550), designed by Vignola.
However, many among the most beautiful Roman villas, like Villa Ludovisi and Villa Montalto,
were destroyed during the late nineteenth century in the wake of the real estate bubble that took
place in Rome after the seat of government of a united Italy was established at Rome.
The cool hills of Frascati gained the Villa Aldobrandini (1592); the Villa Falconieri and the Villa
Mondragone.
The Villa d'Este near Tivoli is famous for the water play in its terraced gardens. The Villa Medici
was on the edge of Rome, on the Pincian Hill, when it was built in 1540.
In the later 16th century the villas designed by Andrea Palladio around Vicenza and along the
Brenta Canal in Venetian territories, remained influential for over four hundred years. Palladio
often unified all the farm buildings into the architecture of his extended villas (as at Villa Emo).
In the early 18th century the English took up the term. Thanks to the revival of interest in
Palladio and Inigo Jones, soon neo-palladian villas dotted the valley of the River Thames. In
many ways Thomas Jefferson's Monticello is a villa. The Marble Hill House in England was
conceived originally as "villas" in the 18th-century sense.
In the nineteenth century, villa was extended to describe any suburban house that was free-
standing in a landscaped plot of ground, as opposed to a 'terrace' of joined houses. By the time
'semi-detached villas' were being erected at the turn of the twentieth century, the term collapsed
under its extension and overuse. The suburban "villa" became a "bungalow" after World War I in
post-colonial Britain, and by extension the term is used for suburban bungalows in both Australia
and New Zealand, especially those dating from the period of rapid suburban development
between 1920 and 1950. The villa concept lives on in southern Europe and in Latin America,
where villas are associated with upper-class social position and lifestyle.
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Casale is located in a small village of 350 people and is uniquely priced in US dollars.The
property takes its name from its location on Via del Casale in Valle San Giovanni, a
small town located about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Teramo (population 53,000), the
capital city of one of the four provinces of the Abruzzo region. It is midway between the
Adriatic Sea (25 km/15 miles) and the Gran Sasso (20 km/12 miles), the highest peak in
the Apennine mountain range. Rome is about 176 km/110 miles away. An airport in
Pescara is located about 48 miles/80 km to the south.Valle San Giovanni is a quiet town
of about 300 people. The residents of "La Valle" refer to themselves as Vallaroli and are
the nicest people in the world! Many have relatives who emigrated to southern New
Jersey and Montreal.Casale sits by itself at the end of a short alley off the main piazza.
This provides a sense of serenity while still allowing plenty of contact with the lovely
townspeople. The town has a church ("chiesa"), one bar (Bar Nonanta) run by
Francesca, a grocery store (alimentari) owned by Paolo, Irma’s fruit and vegetable store,
a post office branch (Ufficio Postale), and a hardware store (ferramenta) run by
Leonardo. There are several restaurants within a 3-7 km driving distanceCasale was
completed in August, 2004. The interior area is 62 square meters (667 square feet).
There are two bedrooms (one with a matrimonial bed and a second with two twin beds),
a living room with a couch that folds out into a double bed (this is where Stefano sleeps
as it is extremely comfortable, a fully equipped kitchen, and a bathroom with an
enclosed shower. There is a wood burning stove for heating and a washing machine. A
ceiling fan cools things a bit in the summer. The screens on the windows work well. A
bus runs several times per day between Valle San Giovanni and Teramo.
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A villa was originally a Roman country house built for the upper classes. According to Pliny the Elder, there were several kinds of villas, the villa urbana,
which was a country seat that could easily be reached from Rome (or another city) for a night or two, and the villa rustica, the farm-house estate,
permanently occupied by the servants who had charge generally of the estate, which would centre on the villa itself, perhaps only seasonally occupied.
There was the domus, a city house for the middle class, and insulae, lower class apartment buildings. Petronius Satyricon describes a wide range of Roman
dwellings. There were a concentration of Imperial villas near the Bay of Naples, especially on the Isle of Capri, at Monte Circeo on the coast and at Antium
(Anzio). Wealthy Romans escaped the summer heat in the hills round Rome, especially around Tibur (Tivoli) and Frascati (cf Hadrian's Villa). Cicero is
said to have possessed no fewer than seven villas, the oldest of which was near Arpinum, which he inherited. Pliny the Younger had three or four, of which
the example near Laurentium is the best known from his descriptions.

Roman writers refer with satisfaction to the self-sufficiency of their villas, where they drank their
own wine and pressed their own oil. This was an affectation of urban arsitocrats playing at being
old-fashioned virtuous Roman farmers, but the economic indepedence of later rural villas was a
symptom of the increasing economic fragmentation of the Roman empire. When complete
working villas were donated to the Christian church, they served as the basis for monasteries that
survived the disruptions of the Gothic War and the Lombards. An outstanding example of such a
villa-turned-monastery was Monte Cassino.
Numerous Roman villas have been meticulously examined in England. Like their Italian
counterparts, they were complete working agrarian societies of fields and vineyards, perhaps
even tileworks or quarries, ranged round a high-status power center with its baths and gardens.
The grand villa at Woodchester preserved its mosaic floors when the Anglo-Saxon parish church
was built (not by chance) upon its site. Burials in the churchyard as late as the 18th century had
to be punched through the intact mosaic floors. The even more palatial villa rustica at Fishbourne
near Winchester was built uncharacteristically as a large open rectangle with porticos enclosing
gardens that was entered through a portico. Towards the end of the 3rd century, Roman towns in
Britain ceased to expand: like patricians near the centre of the empire, Roman Britons withdrew
from the cities to their villas, which entered on a palatial building phase, a "golden age" of villa
life. Villae rusticae are essential in the Empire's economy.
Two kinds of villa plan in Roman Britain may be characteristic of Roman villas in general. The
more usual plan extended wings of rooms all opening onto a linking portico, which might be
extended at right angles, even to enclose a courtyard. The other kind featured an aisled central
hall like a basilica, suggesting the villa owner's magisterial role. The villa buildings were often
independent structures linked by their enclosed courtyards. Timber-framed construction,
carefully fitted with mortices and tenons and dowelled together, set on stone footings, were the
rule, replaced by stone buildings for the important ceremonial rooms. Traces of window glass
have been found as well as ironwork window grilles.
As the Roman Empire collapsed in the fourth and fifth centuries, the villas were more and more
isolated and came to be protected by walls. Though in England the villas were abandoned,
looted, and burned by Anglo-Saxon invaders in the fifth century, other areas had large working
villas donated by aristocrats and territorial magnates to individual monks that often became the
nucleus of famous monasteries. In this way, the villa system of late Antiquity was preserved into
the early Medieval period. Saint Benedict established his influential monastery of Monte Cassino
in the ruins of a villa at Subiaco that had belonged to Nero; there are fuller details at the entry for
Benedict. Around 590, Saint Eligius was born in a highly-placed Gallo-Roman family at the
'villa' of Chaptelat near Limoges, in Aquitaine (now France). The abbey at Stavelot was founded
ca 650 on the domain of a former villa near Liège and the abbey of Vézelay had a similar
founding. As late as 698, Willibrord established an abbey at a Roman villa of Echternach, in
Luxemburg near Trier, which was presented to him by Irmina, daughter of Dagobert II, king of
the Franks. It was economically as self-sufficient as a village and its inhabitants, who might be
legally tied to it as serfs were villeins. The Merovingian Franks inherited the concept, but the
later French term was basti or bastide.
Villa (or its cognates) is part of many Spanish placenames, like Vila Real and Villadiego: a villa
is a town with a charter (fuero) of lesser importance than a ciudad ("city"). When it is associated
with a personal name, villa was probably used in the original sense of a country estate rather than
a chartered town. Later evolution has made the Hispanic distinction between villas and ciudades
a purely honorific one. Madrid is the Villa y Corte, the villa considered to be separate from the
formerly mobile royal court, but the much smaller Ciudad Real was declared ciudad by the
Spanish crown.
In 14th and 15th century Italy, a 'villa' once more connoted a country house, sometimes the
family seat of power like Villa Caprarola, more often designed for seasonal pleasure, usually
located within easy distance of a city. The first examples of Renaissance villa dates back to the
age of Lorenzo de' Medici, and they are mostly located in the Italian region of Tuscany (the
"Medici villas") such as the Villa di Poggio a Caiano by Giuliano da Sangallo (begun in 1470) or
the Villa Medici in Fiesole (since 1450), probably the first villa created under the instructions of
Leon Battista Alberti, who theorized in his De re aedificatoria the features of the new idea of
villa. The gardens are from that period considered as a fundamental link between the residential
building and the country outside. From Tuscany the idea of villa was spread again through Italy
and Europe.
Rome had more than its share of villas with easy reach of the small sixteenth-century city: the
progenitor, the first villa suburbana built since Antiquity, was the Belvedere or palazzetto,
designed by Antonio Pollaiuolo and built on the slope above the Vatican Palace. The Villa
Madama, the design of which, attributed to Raphael and carried out by Giulio Romano in 1520,
was one of the most influential private houses ever built; elements derived from Villa Madama
appeared in villas through the 19th century. Villa Albani was built near the Porta Salaria. Other
are the Villa Borghese; the Villa Doria Pamphili (1650); the Villa Giulia of Pope Julius III
(1550), designed by Vignola.
However, many among the most beautiful Roman villas, like Villa Ludovisi and Villa Montalto,
were destroyed during the late nineteenth century in the wake of the real estate bubble that took
place in Rome after the seat of government of a united Italy was established at Rome.
The cool hills of Frascati gained the Villa Aldobrandini (1592); the Villa Falconieri and the Villa
Mondragone.
The Villa d'Este near Tivoli is famous for the water play in its terraced gardens. The Villa Medici
was on the edge of Rome, on the Pincian Hill, when it was built in 1540.
In the later 16th century the villas designed by Andrea Palladio around Vicenza and along the
Brenta Canal in Venetian territories, remained influential for over four hundred years. Palladio
often unified all the farm buildings into the architecture of his extended villas (as at Villa Emo).
In the early 18th century the English took up the term. Thanks to the revival of interest in
Palladio and Inigo Jones, soon neo-palladian villas dotted the valley of the River Thames. In
many ways Thomas Jefferson's Monticello is a villa. The Marble Hill House in England was
conceived originally as "villas" in the 18th-century sense.
In the nineteenth century, villa was extended to describe any suburban house that was free-
standing in a landscaped plot of ground, as opposed to a 'terrace' of joined houses. By the time
'semi-detached villas' were being erected at the turn of the twentieth century, the term collapsed
under its extension and overuse. The suburban "villa" became a "bungalow" after World War I in
post-colonial Britain, and by extension the term is used for suburban bungalows in both Australia
and New Zealand, especially those dating from the period of rapid suburban development
between 1920 and 1950. The villa concept lives on in southern Europe and in Latin America,
where villas are associated with upper-class social position and lifestyle.
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Casale is located in a small village of 350 people and is uniquely priced in US dollars.The
property takes its name from its location on Via del Casale in Valle San Giovanni, a
small town located about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Teramo (population 53,000), the
capital city of one of the four provinces of the Abruzzo region. It is midway between the
Adriatic Sea (25 km/15 miles) and the Gran Sasso (20 km/12 miles), the highest peak in
the Apennine mountain range. Rome is about 176 km/110 miles away. An airport in
Pescara is located about 48 miles/80 km to the south.Valle San Giovanni is a quiet town
of about 300 people. The residents of "La Valle" refer to themselves as Vallaroli and are
the nicest people in the world! Many have relatives who emigrated to southern New
Jersey and Montreal.Casale sits by itself at the end of a short alley off the main piazza.
This provides a sense of serenity while still allowing plenty of contact with the lovely
townspeople. The town has a church ("chiesa"), one bar (Bar Nonanta) run by
Francesca, a grocery store (alimentari) owned by Paolo, Irma’s fruit and vegetable store,
a post office branch (Ufficio Postale), and a hardware store (ferramenta) run by
Leonardo. There are several restaurants within a 3-7 km driving distanceCasale was
completed in August, 2004. The interior area is 62 square meters (667 square feet).
There are two bedrooms (one with a matrimonial bed and a second with two twin beds),
a living room with a couch that folds out into a double bed (this is where Stefano sleeps
as it is extremely comfortable, a fully equipped kitchen, and a bathroom with an
enclosed shower. There is a wood burning stove for heating and a washing machine. A
ceiling fan cools things a bit in the summer. The screens on the windows work well. A
bus runs several times per day between Valle San Giovanni and Teramo.