La Rogaia is in the middle of nature: Stillness

This also means that there is much to discover here. You can see animals and plants that you cannot find anywhere else. And you have the opportunity to enjoy the silence of a remote country place.

However, if you are in a constant hustle and bustle, La Rogaia is probably not the right place for you.

La Rogaia is ideal for children. Your children can play on their own, discover a lot, and experience nature.

However, if you are convinced that your children need constant animation, or that nature is simply dull and boring, and if you are not ready to embrace something new and unknown, then La Rogaia is probably not the right place for you.

La Rogaia is in the middle of nature: Animals

That means that there is wildlife around. We get visited by deer, fallow deer, foxes, wild boars, badgers and porcupines. You can already meet our foxes in a blog post.

The foxes were born and grew up in La Rogaia, they are semi-domesticated and do not suffer from rabies. In addition, they are dewormed every 2 months, together with our cats.

Wild animals are fascinating and beautiful to look at, but they are very rarely clean and leave their "traces" on our property.
This is a normal part of life in the country and no reason to complain.

The same is also true for the singing of nightingales and the call of owls, as well as, for example,   the chirping of crickets and cicadas in summer.

If you think now that it is nonsensical to feel disturbed by birds singing, we share your opinion. We have not yet heard something of the kind from our own guests, but we know that some of our colleagues had to listen to bitter complaints already...

We also cannot rule out that during your stay you will see spiders or – very rarely – a scorpion. In all the years that we have had guests in our house, no one has ever been stung by a scorpion. And even if this should happen one day, the bite of a Mediterranean scorpion is harmless and corresponds to a wasp bite.

In the vicinity of La Rogaia live also snakes, especially ring snakes, which are very useful (and harmless) animals. Although there are vipers in Umbria and Tuscany, we have never seen one in La Rogaia.

Nevertheless, if you are suffering from a snake or spider phobia or are afraid of insects and other small animals, La Rogaia is not the right place for you.

La Rogaia is in the middle of nature: Driveway

If you are very keen on having an espresso within walking distance at the local bar, restaurant or pizzeria, without using your car, La Rogaia is probably not the right place for you.

The nearest village, Castel Rigone, is 4 kilometres away. It takes about 45 minutes to walk there.

As a driveway, La Rogaia has a country-like gravel road, a so-called "vicinale" (you could translate that with "neighbourhood road").

This also applies to many other agriturismi and country houses in Italy. It is prohibited by law to tar these gravel roads in order not to seal the soil.

"Vicinali" are theoretically maintained by all residents. In practice, however, the work remains dependent on those who need it most, while all others are exercising themselves with noble restraint and rarely, if ever, contribute to maintaining the road.

The notoriously poor town administrations do not feel obliged to do anything either. However, the "Vicinali" are by no means private roads. Everyone can use them and hence wear them out.

Even though these gravel roads may be unfamiliar to some, they are not dangerous at all, and accidents hardly ever happen.

If you arrive by car: Please read this important information

Villa La Rogaia is surrounded by nature, 4 km away from the nearest village, Castel Rigone. The last 2.5 km to our house is a gravel road. This might be unusual for some of our guests. However, in comparison to driving on a motorway, it is the safest part of your trip.

Nevertheless, some might find it adventurous or even dangerous to drive on a gravel road.

The fact is that the last "accident" on our access road was at least 20 years ago when one of our guests had touched a negligently parked car of our neighbours on the side of the road.

Our access road is not suitable for very long or wide motorhomes, for motorcycles (except enduro or cross motorcycles) and for extremely low-slung cars.

All other cars can drive on our road without any problems.

Some of our guests come year after year with their sports cars, such as Porsches and Jaguars.

However, if the thought of driving a short distance along a gravel road through the Umbrian hills causes you significant discomfort, causes members of your family to cry hysterically, or if the thought of possibly having to swerve to avoid an oncoming car on such a gravel road sends you into a panic, La Rogaia is probably not the right holiday destination for you.

Find out more about our road HERE

La Rogaia is in the middle of nature: Where we are

Villa La Rogaia is not situated by the sea! Umbria is the only region of Italy which has no access to the sea (apart from the regions in the Alps, of course).

The Villa La Rogaia is not located directly at the shore of Lake Trasimeno but in the hills above the lake. We belong to the municipality of Passignano sul Trasimeno. Passignano has several districts, of which only the main town, Passignano sul Trasimeno, is located directly at the lake. Our village is Castel Rigone, originally an independent village, which was incorporated into Passignano at the beginning of the last century.

Please see HERE the exact position of Villa La Rogaia

Let´s talk about the weather

Unfortunately we have no influence on the weather.

It can get really hot in summer. In July and August the maximum average temperature is just under 28° Celsius. But temperatures around 35° Celsius are not uncommon, and in some summers the thermometer occasionally rises        to 40 ° Celsius.

For those who want to escape the Nordic cold and soak up the sun, this is wonderful.

However, if you suffer from high temperatures, you shouldn't go to Umbria in July and August.

In addition, it is often very dry in July and August. We don't have unlimited water supplies from our wells to keep our flower garden and lawns green all year round.

If you want to experience La Rogaia in lush greenery and lavish flowers, you have to come to us from April to June and from mid-September to November.

On the other hand, it can of course also happen that in the summer, if rarely, it rains more or is fresher than a sun-seeker would have liked.

As we said, we have no influence on the weather; neither one nor the other is a reason for complaint, and therefore also no reason to cancel the trip.

Please understand that we will not give any financial or other compensation if you cancel your trip because the weather conditions do not meet your expectations.

Holidays with people with physical or mental disabilities

If you are travelling with family members or friends with physical or mental disabilities, you should definitely talk to us in advance of the trip to clarify whether La Rogaia meets your expectations and needs.

This is especially true if someone only has seemingly slight limitations, overestimates the own abilities and assumes that he or she can move around our premises completely independently without the help of relatives or friends.

Even if you are travelling with older people, for example your elderly parents, you should definitely clarify in advance whether the apartment you have chosen meets their needs.

In most cases we have the possibility of arranging things so that people with physical disabilities have a pleasant stay with us.

However, we need to know this in advance.

Detailed information about disabled-friendly holidays in La Rogaia

Villa La Rogaia is a true agriturismo, not a Disneyland farm

Villa La Rogaia is a true agriturismo, not a Disneyland farm.

We take great care to make our agriturismo beautiful and give it an artistic touch beyond the ordinary.

However, as with any farm, there are outbuildings, warehouses, and workshops where we carry out the work—usually behind the scenes—that makes our agriturismo a little paradise for our guests, as they repeatedly confirm.

In addition, there is a workshop at La Rogaia where we hold, among other things, sculpture and painting courses.

For various reasons, these buildings are not part of the area accessible to our guests, or are only accessible to a limited extent.

However, if the obvious presence of the outbuildings, warehouses, and workshops at our agriturismo, or even the mere thought of their existence, seriously impairs your enjoyment of your vacation, Villa La Rogaia is not the right place for you.

Please understand that if you cancel your trip because this area of our agriturismo does not meet your notions or expectations, we cannot provide any financial or other compensation.

A few words about notions and perceptions

On our website we provide information about Villa La Rogaia as detailed and realistic as possible.

We are familiar with many other websites of holiday providers and can therefore say in good conscience that not many websites offer a comparably detailed level of information.

Nevertheless, it does happen, although fortunately not very often, that one or other of our guests, despite detailed information, cannot really imagine something, has perceived something in a way different to how it is actually described on our website and is then faced with an unexpected reality here.

We regret this but also say very clearly that we are not responsible for the subjective notions and perceptions of other people.

We are also not responsible if someone, for whatever reason, does not take note of the information we provide before booking a holiday at Villa La Rogaia.

For us as a company, it is not subjective notions and perceptions that are relevant, but objective facts.

Therefore, please understand that we do not accept any complaints that are based on subjective notions and perceptions or on insufficient information and resulting incorrect claims.

Remedy of defects

We do everything in our power to make Villa La Rogaia a paradise for our guests.

However, we cannot completely rule out the possibility of a defect occurring or of one of our guests perceiving something as a defect.

Fortunately, both of these occur very rarely.

According to travel laws, vacationers are required to allow a reasonable period of time for defects to be remedied.

If vacationers fail to do so and end their vacation without conceding a reasonable time to remedy the defect, they are not entitled to compensation.

Please understand that we also reserve the right to rectify repairable defects within a reasonable period of time.

A prerequisite for the rectification of defects is, of course, that they are reported to us in a timely manner.

Please understand that another prerequisite for a complaint about a defect is, that there is actually a defect according to objective criteria, which would also be objectively perceived as such by neutral parties.

Do we have exclusive use of the house?

Villa La Rogaia has six holiday apartments for a maximum of 20 persons.

Four of them, Il Peperino, La Nostalgia, I Cuccioli, and La Mimosa, are located in our large house, where also our private apartment is located.

The other two, La Pipo and La Grapo, are located in the small house directly next door.

You can book individual apartments or the entire house (except for our private area, of course).

If you want to have the entire house for your exclusive use, you have to rent the entire house.

If you only need part of our house (for example, only the large house), please assume that we will rent out to other guests the apartments of our house that you have not rented.

Even if you have rented the entire house (i.e. all available holiday apartments) to be among yourselves, you must assume that you will, of course, still meet us and our staff.

Current prices for every option can be found here: https://www.rogaia.com/en/prices.html#grouprates

The short answer is no. The pool is available to all our guests, our staff, and ourselves.

In reality, however, in our experience, it's very rare that everyone wants to use the pool at the same time.

The likelihood of having to share the pool with a crowd, like at a large public pool, is therefore very slim.

Most of the time, our pool sits peacefully in the sun, without a single person in sight.