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The new year has started and temperatures here in Italy are rather spring-like, so it must be time to think about booking your stay in Castiglione del Lago! Here are a few ideas to combine your stay with a local event: the 15th edition of the Strasimeno running race on March 6 – you canContinue reading “When are you coming to visit?”

  

Umbria is famous for the high quality of its olive oil. Century-old trees find the perfect climatic conditions to produce deep green oil that is packed with flavour and sought-after from afar. After last year’s poor harvest caused by the dreaded olive fly, this year is one of celebration! The oil mills are now open,Continue reading “Olive Oil Galore”

Where to go next? Visit a painting exhibition in Pozzuolo Umbro? Or perhaps the Cortona on the Move photo expo in Cortona or the Trasimeno Panorami e Foto show in San Feliciano? Listen to famed opera singer Katia Ricciarelli in the castle of Castiglione del Lago on August 12 or do the Vintage Festival inContinue reading “What to pick now?”

  Summer is in full swing in Castiglione del Lago. The lake is full of water and fish, and events are coming in quick succession. Umbria Jazz has just ended, with Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett performing amongst others; the Notte Bianca was held on Friday; and now is time for the Trasimeno Blues Festival!Continue reading “La dolce vita”

Our part of Italy looks like this right now! Come and stay at Casa Leone Italy and see it for yourself 🙂         All pictures by Ferdinando Maino, my colleague in the office!

Our skies will be full of planes, balloons and kites this month! First up is the Meeting di Primavera being held from 24 to 26 April. Over the weekend, helicopters, ultra light planes, small cesnas and many other flying objects will hover above our lake and our old town. The following weekend (30 April –Continue reading “Colours in the sky”

It’s Venerdi Santo tomorrow and the beginning of one of the most important weekends of the year here in Italy. If you are in the area, look out for Good Friday processions in Gubbio, Assisi or Orvieto and even in the smaller villages like Paciano that houses a church build solely to keep procession statuesContinue reading “Easter in Umbria”

Lake Trasimeno is still at a record high at the moment – the good side of a wet winter – and is looking absolutely stunning! We think that swimming, canoeing and exploring on a pedalo will be fabulous this summer. In the meantime, the kite surfers are making the most of the windy days andContinue reading “A full lake”