The house has a long history and was built 350 years ago as a shepherd house with sheep shed and was completely rebuilt from the ground by the previous owners between 1995 and 2000. In 2016 it was renovated again and an additional apartment and swimming pool were created.

We are a Flemish-Belgian couple. We moved permanently to Italy in October 2015. After working over 25 years and now that the children have reached the age at which they can independently go through life, we have decided to give a new twist to our lives and to ultimately realize our Italian dream. A dream which originated many years ago during one of our stays in Italy and only has become stronger over the years. After an intensive search in the spring of 2014, we finally found our dream house in San Pietro di Arcevia, a small village in the province of Ancona in the Marche.

The house is situated in a hilly landscape and surrounded by lands of the shepherd. There are many nice restaurants in the area, offering the vaunted Marchegian dishes at very reasonable prices. Shopping is best done in San Lorenzo in Campo (6 km), where there are supermarkets, bars, restaurants, bank, pharmacy, etc. The house is centrally located between the Adriatic beaches (25 km, about 30 minutes by car) and the Apennines (30 km, about 40 minutes by car). The frontside of the garden is dominated by a huge mulberry tree which has a trunk with a circumference of more than 6 meters. According to the locals it's probably one of the largest in the whole of Italy. The guests can pick the fruit freshly from the trees in the garden : mulberry - cherries - apricots - plums - apples - figs - almonds - kaki. Here no landscape pollution by big electricity lines, solar panels, cell phone towers or busy roads. With some luck you can watch a herd of deer or wild boar pass by next to the casa, while a pair of eagles or falcons scout their territory from the air.