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We chose the name because that’s what our initiative is all about: helping our guests experience a taste of life in a real Italian village, giving back to our community, and offering a sustainable, immersive, and thoroughly delightful alternative to mass tourism.
We live year-round in the tiny Umbrian village of Allerona, which is your base for exploring nearby towns and villages, visiting food and wine producers, foraging and harvesting seasonal produce, and admiring the rolling green countryside. It’s here that you’ll stay, dine, take a cooking class, sit outside our local bar and get a taste of the slow pace of daily life, or maybe sneak down to an underground cantina for a private wine or grappa tasting. It’s within our 12th-century stone walls that you’ll wake to the tolling of our clock tower, greet residents on our narrow cobblestone streets, get to know our family and friends, and gain a better understanding of the charms and challenges of Italian village life.
Liz was born in Missouri but is a former Florida girl, as that’s where she grew up and spent most of her adult life. She’s been in Italy for 15 years, during which she’s established herself as a respected travel writer and editor and all-around Italy expert. Her writing has been published in The Washington Post, Travel + Leisure, National Goegraphic, Discover Magazine and many other outlets, and she’s authored several guidebooks on Italy.
Born and raised in Allerona, Paolo is a stonemason who specializes in the restoration of medieval houses — he’s repaired a roof, rebuilt a wall, tiled the floors or crawled through the cantinas of just about every house in town. He loves the outdoors, and knows all the woods, trails and streams of the surrounding countryside. Paolo is a full-time Juventus fan and a sometime truffle hunter, and he speaks a lot more English than he lets on!