Richard Green

Take a look in the attached map, where I’ve drawn the circle, that ought to be more or less your property, #311. What was once a Roman villa there appears, from the map, to have spilled down several tens of meters to the SW of you. Obviously only another archaeological survey would be able to capture the whole picture. The publication is De Rossi, G.M. 1979. Bovillae. In Forma Italiae, Regio I, Vol. 15, 298-323. Florence. It’s the most detailed and authoritative archaeological guide to the...

When I first saw Villa Spinabella, perched quietly in the green hills of Marino outside Rome, I did not see the ruin that others saw. I saw bones . I saw history. I saw a house that refused to die. A house with secrets beneath the dust, stories inside its stone walls, and a beauty still fighting to shine through layers of abandonment. What I didn’t know then — but certainly know now — was that buying Villa Spinabella would become one of the most intense, frustrating, exhilarating,...

I appreciate every one has their own preference but we are trying to meet a number of complicated residency and tax laws to meet our...