La Balucca farmhouse

The users of the teaching activities can lodge in the old typical Umbrian farmhouse La Balucca, by the Col Prejano archaeological area, 600 m. far from the main house La Cerqua.  Guest accommodation La Balucca comprises a total of  9 rooms, each named after a local shrub. All the rooms have private bathroom, central heating, latex mattresses and energy-saving lamps. The clubhouse is well equipped. Downstairs the farm-restaurant and the farm-shop offer the organic products prepared in the laboratories behind: jams, liqueurs and precious truffles.  With its riding-ground, its small football field and 2 open-air labs: the Animals Garden and the Wizard’s Garden, it is the ideal place for active holidays in nature.

 

First floor

Camera GINESTRA – (Spartjium Junceum)

 The Broom, a shrub sacred to the Sun, is like a vegetable sun light.
The sun rays, captured by the large windows overlooking the Carpina Valley, throw a bright YELLOW light on the Broom room furniture.

25 s.m. – 3 beds

 

Camera GINEPRO – (Juniperus communis)

 The Juniper, the Christmas shrub, is the vegetable symbol of humility.
The Juniper room simple furniture and its BLUE linen match pleasantly and give it a touch of humble elegance.

22 s.m. – 3 beds

 

Camera NOCCIOLO (Corylus avellanae)

 The Hazel, sacred to the god Mercury, is the tree of magic.
The Hazel room, with its stone walls and its direct way out to the garden, recalls an atmosphere of magic wellbeing.

22 s.m. – 2 beds

 

Second Floor

Camera PRUGNOLO – (Prunus spinosa)

 The Wild Plum, with its white flowers and its purple-blue fruits, is the vegetable symbol of youth.
The contrast between the WHITE walls and the PLUM-COLOURED furniture makes the Wild Plum room a place where old atmospheres and young feelings live together.

30 s.m. – 4 beds

 

Camera VISCHIO – (Lorranthus europaeus)

The Mistletoe, golden  branch and vegetable materialization of the heavenly thunder, is the druids sacred plant.
In the Mistletoe room, the contrast between the dark of the old tobacco drier beams and the LIGHT BLUE of its furniture gives it an almost sacred elegance.

25 s.m. – 3 beds

 

Camera SAMBUCO – (Sambucus niger)

The Elder, the fairy little tree, produces the timber to make magic flutes.
In the Elder room, the small fireplace golden reflections on the GREEN furniture creates an atmosphere of magic musicality.

17 s.m. – 2 beds

 

Camera CORNIOLO – (Cornus mas) – 3 posti letto

The Cornel is the sacred shrub to the god Apollo, who is greedy of its scarlet red fruits.
In the Cornel room,  the completely wooden ceiling frames the RED furniture burning like fire under the light of a small window.

22 s.m. – 3 beds

 

Camera ROSA – (Rosa canina)

The Wild Rose, sacred to Venus, is the vegetable symbol of poetry.
The memory of the small writing-table between the two sunny windows will inspire a feeling of poetic nostalgia on the guest, orphan of the nice warmth of the Wild Rose room

21 s.m. – 3 beds

 

Camera BIANCOSPINO – (Crataegus oxychanta)

The Hawthorn is the shrub sacred to Cardea, the goddess of the wind and of the door hinges.
The creaking of the doors moved by the breath of  wind passing through the several panoramic windows, doesn’t trouble the PASTEL COLOURS atmosphere of the Hawthorn room.

26 s.m. – 4 beds