Villa Castelli Romani - Montecanino, Città metropolitana di Roma Capitale

Giuseppe Iavazzo

Villa stupenda in posto tranquillo, da ritornarci nel periodo estivo

Stefania D'Amico

Bellissima villa immersa nel verde!!

Edoardo Acciari

villa meravigliosa

Francesco Cecchini

E bellissimo

Pierluigi Acciari

Posto fantastico

Timo Rantalainen

Charming 1930's villa that could do with a trip to Ikea.

The rooms are lovely and the bathrooms are traditional Italian, fine but with separate hot and cold taps (the downstairs bathroom has a normal mixer tap and water pressure is great). The views stretch all the way to the sea, on a clear day, from the second-floor balcony. The interior is traditional Italian, marble staircase and inlaid stone floor in the living room. The pool and grounds are fine and lush, but a bit of gardening and a cleaning robot for the bottom of the pool would make them great (nothing major, just some sand at the bottom). There were nice sunchairs by the pool and a lovely covered outdoor eating and sitting area next to them, but the grill is of the open-face type and we had trouble heating it up on a windy day.

The kitchen is spacious, but it's not equipped for cooking for 10 people. The dishwasher took ages and the dishes were still dirty after a six-hour cycle - at some point in the week we realized it wasn't heating up the water. The electric oven was fine, but there were no baking trays, only one sparse grate. The five-burner gas stove's largest burner would light up just fine one day, then refuse to do so the next day. The fridge is not big enough for so many people - although I have to say that going to the supermarket every day was fun, and if you eat out a lot, the fact that there aren't enough dishes, cups or mugs (e.g. no small bowls for cooking or eating ice cream) is not a problem.

Genzano was a lovely and non-touristy town. A number of decent restaurants, an excellent gelateria in the centre, and a couple of good supermarkets (we used the Coop mostly, and the staff was very friendly and helpful - mind you, we speak Italian relatively well). Some of us went to the Roman ship museum by the lake, and it was a hit even for our four-year-old.

We went to Rome on day trips twice; one time one of us gave us a ride to Pavona (Albano is closer, but the train is slower) and we took the local train, 29 mins to Termini. But there were some roadworks and the car trip took much longer than planned, so we ended up taking a 60-euro Uber back from Rome. So next time we decided to try the bus, and it turned out that the bus stop is right next to the gate of the villa... It takes a little under an hour to get to the end of the metro line, but you get to see sights better than on the train. On the way back, the bus doesn't go the same way, so we got off at the Coop in the centre of the town and someone picked us up. We could have walked, but we were exhausted. The app for the regional buses is called Cotral.

Summary: lovely villa, I'd go again if I knew the kitchen was better equipped this time.

Oud Apperaat

Mooie uitzicht op de prachtige omgeving.

Cristian p