Villa Maddalena is an ideal holiday family house. It is set on a hill on the edge of the thermal town of Acqui Terme, in the heart of Piemontese area renowned for its wines and food. It is surrounded by a beautiful garden, a very comfortable swimming pool area, and many well-equipped outside dining and sitting areas. The house is within short driving distance from 4 main airports: Genoa, Milano Linate, Milano Malpensa and Turin. From the house one can reach the town on foot (15 minutes walk), or on a bicycle, and just at the bottom of the hill (5 minutes walk), there is a grocery shop, butcher, pharmacy, newsagent and ice cream shop, while the town itself offers excellent restaurants, music events, thermal water treatments, local markets. To our guests we offer the possibility to have a Chef Service for lunches or dinners.
The house is on 2 floors: on the ground floor you find a large eat-in kitchen that opens up in front of the dining tables on one end and towards the living room on the other end. The living room has a large sofa, and another 2 smaller sofas, 4/ 5 chairs scattered around and a round table with another chair that we use like a desk. The inside dining room is hardly ever used in the summer, it has a dining table that can be enlarged to seat about 10 people, there is library with some books and VCRs. Further on, on the same floor, there are 2 bedrooms: one is a double bedroom with access to a private garden and the other one is a 3 beds children bedroom, that opens towards the garden. On this floor there are 2 bathrooms: one is ensuite to the double bedroom but it can be also be accessed by the children' s room, the other one is adjacent to the children bedroom and accessible also from the kitchen. Indoor stairs and outdoor stairs lead up to the second floor, where one finds a pleasant smaller living room opening up to a balcony overlooking the garden and the pool and 2 areas: each has a double bedroom and a 2 twin beds bedroom, sometimes the tween beds are put together to make it a double bed. Also there are the 3 bathrooms : one is en-suite to the master bedroom, and 2 bathrooms are for the other 3 bedrooms.
The house is surrounded by a 3.000 sqm beautiful garden, with large relaxing areas with chairs, tables, under tall old trees, a gazebo, swing chairs and sun loungers.
The pool is 14mt long and 6 mt wide, with a "play area", about 1mt deep, and a diving area about 2,5 mt deep with a diving board. Pool has night lights and outdoor shower.
A very efficient wood burning oven is conveniently placed on the side of the garden.
A laundry area with washing and drying machine is in the little pool hut, where the wood oven is placed.
A chef service is available upon request.
A house manager is available for any emergencies or even simple clarifications about the house functioning and for suggestions about the area.