The house is our home for part of the year - many comment on this when contacting us after their stay. We have a deep affection for Casa La Dogana and the surrounding area, its beauty, its culture, its friendly people and its food.
 

Thick stone walls, as well as traditional wooden shutters on every window, keep the house cool in summer. 

Winter is a different experience with many cold but sunny days. Two large open fires, central heating  

and those same thick walls keep the house cosy in winter.

The level of furnishing and equipment reflects our standards. Everything you are likely to need is there  - down to luxury soap, shampoo and conditioner, swimming towels, medicine cupboard and hairdryers. The restoration retains many of the original features, including the outside bread oven (now substituted with a stone-built barbecue). The surrounding area is utterly beautiful. The local people are incredibly friendly

(especially if you can manage even a few words of Italian).

There is a mass of space for 11 people with a variety of places to eat, indoors and out. And spots to enjoy solitude (gently rocking in a hammock if you wish). No matter what you are seeking, Casa La Dogana is an ideal place for family holidays and celebrating special anniversaries. For those with an interest in architecture or history,  records show that buildings existed on the site in both Roman and Etruscan times.

H. V. Morton captures the atmosphere:
“Of all the regions of Italy, Umbria is the most subtle, the most tranquil and the most mysterious. One has the feeling that the roots go down even deeper than usual, beyond the Etruscans, to an unknown people speaking

a lost tongue, and that the mountain-tops have seen star-gazers of whose existence history has no record”.