The house is in Localita Benano, a part of Orvieto, the most spectacular hill town in central Italy. As an outpost along the pope's road from Rome to France and beyond, Benano is in the Umbrian countryside, Italy's green heart, and features easy access to the major cities, towns, and sights that are the essence of Italy. You can make easy day trips as the tourist inside feels the urge. There are lovely walks in the fields and hills just outside your door. Lake Bolsena is clear and clean and twenty minutes by car down the road. The sea and beaches are about an hour away. Rome is just an hour and a quarter by car, about the same by train. Florence is an hour and a half, a little more by train.
Benano, equidistant from Orvieto and Aquapendente . . . stay home and write your novel, putter with a house project, or explore the immediate vicinity and beyond.
