Verona Farmhouse, Italy: Relais Country House in Verona

It seems impossible to be so close to the city, when you are immersed in so magic a nature and your view spreads out over the entire Val Squaranto until the peaks of the mountains ...

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Delo qualifies as an agriturismo, but that description will not adequately prepare guests or website visitors for its comforts and charm. If it were French, it would be a relais; if English, a country house; in the Italian lexicon and for graduates of Tuscany or Umbria, it is a tenuta, where buildings and land together form an estate.

However, Tenuta Delo provides a gentler experience than busier estates to the south: it is unspoilt and authentic, rich of energy; an intimate and primordial contact with nature, few minutes from fine Verona city ... The time and space to find yourself: an antidote to life in the fast lane, a perfect expression of the slow life.

The slow life at Tenuta Delo involves more than peace and quiet and slow food. Here it harvests a rich cultural bounty which is the basis of slow life: the rural heritage of ancient Veneti and the Roman sites; Palladio’s original villas; the literary trails of Catullus and Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe; the simple joys of its wine and food festivals: all are within a slow drive of this estate.

Here in the gentle Veronese hills, where our family invites its guests to share these fruits of slow life: not only fruits of the earth, but of the heart and mind and community; fruits of history and architecture, literature and land and family. And, most important, the time and space to find harmony together.

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The owners also offer a refined B&B in the family's house in the ancient heart of Verona, in a wonderful place between the hills and the river, 200 mt from the Roman Theatre and Ponte Pietra.