The house provides the perfect restful holiday with many different places to sunbathe or read in the large garden with different views of the mountains, to the east the Majella Mountain and west the Apennines. It is on the edge of the village of Pacentro and a short walk takes you up to the bustle of the main piazza with all the shops you need for day to day living and several restaurants. Apart from grocer shops Pacentro has a bank, pharmacy and bakery, with beautiful fresh bread and cakes. The restaurants are all excellent and open all years round as people often come up from Sulmona and the valley area to eat in Pacentro. 
The house is arranged on three floors over two terraces. The kitchen is on the lowest floor with convenient eating outside the kitchen door on the lower terrace. There is also a bathroom on the lowest floor. The middle floor is given over completely to a large barrel vaulted sitting room which is cool in the summer due to the thickness of the bricks and which also seem to retain their heat to keep warm in the cooler months. The upper terrace is reached from the living room. There is an open plan staircase to the two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. 
The garden is south facing and is mostly laid to grass except for the two terraces. There are olive trees and two enormous fig trees and a large cave where we keep the outside furniture. 
The property is entered by a locked gate down steps to the front door. There is parking on the church forecourt next to the house but the roads in the village are quite narrow. We usually park on a nearby wider road and walk the 90 metres to the house. 
In the heat of the summer our ravine is cooler than the centre of the village