The Agriturismo Santa Cristina is surrounded by gentle olive groves and wide sloping fields of vines. These noble surroundings, where small-hold farming still prevails, offer the prefect backdrop for relaxing in the large swimming pools or on the English lawn at this well-appointed estate. Sport lovers may also play five – a side –football or tennis in a new synthetic grass ground at exclusive use of Santa Cristina clients.
The estate's accomodation is divided into four private villas: Villa Domitilla, Villa Sveva, Villa Laurentia and Villa Mary. Each of the four villas features a private garden with lawn and a panoramic pergola dining terrace.
Villa Domitilla and Villa Sveva are semi-detached properties and both share a large swimming pool with private changing cabins. Villa Laurentia and Villa Mary has each a private swimming pool. In Villa Domitilla and Villa Laurentia, one of the bedrooms is conveniently found on the ground floor whose private bathroom is handicapped equiped for the disabled.
The villas are situated on the cusp of a hill immersed in 100 hectares of private, family-owned land. The Agriturismo Santa Cristina, in fact, is a part of a large farming estate belonging to one of the oldest aristocratic family in the Sabina. Some 100 hectares are farmed in 3 distinct crop areas: wheat, olive trees and wine. Indeed, a notable red and white wine is produced as well as a formidable extra virgin olive oil.
Etruscan and Roman antiquities have been discovered all over the estate and even the German army used the main family home as a hospital during World War 2. Moreover, the 4 villas were also rebuilt from an original 1930s style (see picture) copied from similar properties designed by the owner's father, Count Valentino Orsolini Cencelli (see picture), in the Pontine Marshes area south of Rome. In fact, he is well known in Italy recent history for having been the one who 'drained' the marshes area which Julius Caesar and many Popes had wanted to complete
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