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Welcome to the Casa Nova Website.  If you share our interest in the history, culture and natural beauty of Umbria and the Upper Tiber valley, or are looking for a place to holiday in Umbria, this site is for you.

Casa Nova is a small fruit and olive farm on the south-facing slope of the beautiful Niccone valley, 40 minutes from Perugia airport, on the border between Umbria and Southern Tuscany.  The Garden House, a separate 4 bedroom villa with panoramic views and pool, set in its own gardens on the land, offers the perfect base for a holiday in the area.

There are four main sections to the website:

• If you are looking for somewhere to stay while visiting Umbria and Southern Tuscany, check out our Rentals section to find out about staying in the Garden House at Casa Nova: you can fast track through key facts, availability and booking or take a more leisurely tour.

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• In About Casa Nova we share our experiences of the Umbrian countryside, restoring the property, creating a garden and figuring out ways of bringing this once thriving organic farm back into small-scale production.

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• About Umbria brings together useful information for anyone interested in the region.

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• We first discovered this area because one of us, Tom Henry, is a Renaissance Art Historian specialising in the artists who worked nearby: Piero della Francesca, Signorelli, Perugino, Pintoricchio, and Raphael.  The Art History section contains information on these artists and on where their works can still be seen locally, information about Tom’s publications and exhibitions and a portal to a register of archival documents for Signorelli’s life, which is the first element in a project to create an online archival resource for scholars working in the field.

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If you have comments or questions about Casa Nova or about this website, or simply would like more information and want to contact us, click on the Contact Us button on any page within this site.

We feel we have found an Umbrian Eden here at Casa Nova. We hope you enjoy exploring the website and that some of you may decide to share the experience by coming and holidaying here. Thanks for visiting.

What’s new?

This website was last updated on  5 May 2013. We’ve now sold most of our peak summer weeks, but this leaves good availability in May, June and September - book now. It’s been all go over the past year on the Art History front (announces proud spouse).  Tom has published his Signorelli monograph (The Life and Art of Luca Signorelli), available on Amazon; and, if that weren’t enough, there was his exhibition on late Raphael at the Prado and then the Louvre. But now for some serious gardening!  We’ve been busy getting things looking beautiful ahead of the summer. To check availability of the Garden House and prices, click here.  Many thanks to those of you who have holidayed here for all your kind comments.  Here is the garden at its peak: see photos. We have completed a painted panel ceiling for the Garden House: see work in progress. 

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