Locanda della Valle Nuova is an organic Country Inn in sight of Urbino, set in a big organic farm. Come and visit us and share our bit of Le Marche "Italy's best kept secret"!
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- Location:
- Urbino, Italy, 61033
- Phone:
- +39 0722 330303
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- We produce electricity!!! 2:57pm Sep 12|2 Comments
- Peperoni anyone? 6:43am Sep 3
- San Leo 2:07pm Aug 31
After a 3 months wait due to, guess what, bureaucracy, our photovoltaic panels started producing electricity yesterday!!!We'll soon have an online system to know how much electricity we're producing.It feels great knowing that we're not polluting every time that we switch a lamp on!
This year peppers have been growing, and growing and growing.....
The ancient land of the Montefeltro, lodged between the regions of Le Marche, Romagna and Tuscany, which Duke Federico (1422-1482) drew together, counted a large number of fortresses, built in medieval times to control and safeguard an impervious terrain that would otherwise have been easily...
Fonte Avellana Monastery is a Roman Catholic hermitage founded at the end of the X century that stands about 30 km south of the Locanda, near the Umbrian border...
As I wrote before, the Locanda has been included in a new Rough Guide: Clean Breaks. Today an article about the author's favourites in the Mediterranean is out on The Observer. You can read it here.
I wrote a few days ago about a group of young American journalists visiting the Locanda and the farm.Now a multimedia story of their experience here is online, with photos, an article and a video. It's very interesting to read and see a different point of view on what we do and I love the video...
Locanda della Valle Nuova What is Agriturismo? My answer in short video taken at Valle Nuova by American journalism students in Urbino for a course.
The Locanda has been included in the Rough Guides book Clean Breaks: 500 new ways to see the world by Richard Hammond and Jeremy Smith. "Clean Breaks unearths 500 unique experiences and new ways to travel that make a real difference to the lives of local people and the planet...
This week we haven't had many guests, the season is being slower than usual (even if not nearly as bad as I expected and much better than I hear from other people), but somehow we manage to be as busy as we are on a busier season... mistery...
Can luxury travel be responsible? What are you looking for when choosing your travel destination and the way you're going to travel? Should tourism contribute to improve the lives of the local communities...
It will be the first strike of bloggers ever.On July 14, 2009, Italian bloggers will muzzle themselves in the Web as well as in Piazza Navona in Rome, at 7PM where they will meet to protest against an Italian government bill (the Alfano decree) introducing a number of new rules which will limit the...
During the last weeks my dsl connection has been working very badly: it usually disconnects (or works only for a few moments and then disconnects again) from 11 a.m. to 9 or 10 p.m. Apparently there's nothing wrong on my line... but it keeps disconnecting...
Some time ago I posted about Green options to reach the Locanda. Today I read on Traveling the Green Way that Hertz has launched its Green Collection in Europe to meet increasing customer demand for eco-car rentals...
The season started. When you arrive at the Locanda everything smells like roses and honeysuckle (I LOVE honeysuckle!).Once you're inside hot bread smell fills the air, I'm sorry the internet do not allow me to post smells....
