We thought it would be helpful to do a detailed description of the journey up to the house from Promano in the valley to our house
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Starting at 0000 and the milometer is saying 0 km.
If you go through Promano with the Co-op café and supermarket shop on your left-hand side then on your left-hand side past the (very useful and friendly petrol station/garage (on your left-hand side) you keep following the main road (which is going towards Citta de Castello although that is not signed).
You will be driving only a three or four minutes before the right hand turn you are looking for will come up
There is the Post Office on the right-hand side and then you keep going on main road until you come to a right-hand turn which is quite narrow. It is about a kilometre beyond where the Promano supermarket is. There is a 50km a hour sign on the right-hand side. The road is going down a slight hill and the easiest way to recognise that you are coming up to the turn off is the Fattoria Bianchini building ahead of you on the left. the Bianchini name is painted on the factory wall facing you as you come down the road. The actual factor is just AFTER the turn you are looking for on the right hand side of the road. There is also a small blue sign to Marchigliano and Felceto on a small blue sign on the right-hand side. This marks the turn you are looking for.
The road itself that you are turning into is quite narrow and is indentified as Tommaso Marinetti.
You then follow the road that you have joined, bend round to the right immediately, do not go straight ahead and the road starts to climb and almost immediately you start to move out of the inhabited area. After about 100 yards the road bends around to the left, past a 50km an hour sign, although there is not much chance of you doing more than that on the state of these roads.
After that you stay on this road all the way up to the turn to our house. It is that simple (and the best advice I can give is that basically if in doubt keep following the road you are on.
The road takes you up between a number of houses interspersed with fields. Arter about 2km there is a green refuse recycling unit on your right.
At the 3km mark also you leave the houses behind and it is fields and then trees on either side of the road. The road will drop down at various points before rising again. So do not worry if the road is going down and you know you are meant to be going up.
At the 4km mark the road bends around to the left. It looks like a fork in the road but the exit to the right is a private drive. There is a farm house on the right and it is extremely easy to follow the road around to the right because it is not immediately apparent which one is the main road. Anyway it is the road on the left that you want and if you go wrong you will pretty quickly realise your mistake. Immediately after the farm, if you take a left-hand turn, the road will drop down quite steeply and bend around to the left.
There is then a small bridge that you go over before the road starts to climb up again. For about 400 yards after the bridge there is a deserted farm house on the right-hand side and then the road bends around to the left which takes you even further uphill.
At the 5km mark there is a sign on the left in brown to Capanneto which you do not take and you keep going straight ahead. You then end up on the ridge of the hill with the land dropping away either side of you.
At the 5 and bit Km mark our house is visible on the hillside opposite you straight ahead.
At the 6km mark there is a track off on the left-hand side of the main tarmac road goes around to the right. This is a sign that you are close to the turn off for Valliano and no more than a minute or two away from turning left, onto our white road.
The road bends around to the left (fragile crash barrier on the right-hand side followed by a warning sign after you have made it round the corner – this is Italy of course).
The road then curves around to the right and rises slightly and there is a line of telegraph poles crossing the road. This is a sign that you are at the turn left for Valliano. The time is now 12 minutes after starting and the milometer says 7 km.
The turn into the road to Valliano you take is left. There are some new vines on the right-hand side and grass field on the left. The road up to Valliano is unpaved and so is stone/earth etc.
If you miss the turn and go on past it, you will see the field of olives immediately after it on your left hand side. The road bends around to the right and at the 8km mark there is a large yellow crane parked in a lay by that starts to drop fairly consistently. At 9km you pass a house on the left-hand side with grey gates and an ivy hedge either side. There is a space for turning the car around on the right-hand side. Use it!
If you spend time driving around you will realise that there are various ways of getting down to the valley. The route we have given you here is the easiest to describe, but if you come out of our white road and turn left, you can find your way down to the valley but taking a right hand turn and following your nose.
The White Road up to Valliano takes 3 minutes to drive and the steepest bit is the bit at the very start of the drive. It takes about 3 minutes driving to get to the gates to our house There is one large unoccupied house on the right-hand side after a minute. The road drops down hill and Valliano is facing your on left-hand side on the small hill opposite. There is a warehouse on the right-hand side just before our gates You go left past the warehouse and then the gates Valliano are about 50 yards down on the left-hand side. You really can’t miss them.
The parking space is round the side of the front house, and Valliano Chiesa is the building behind it
Time for a drink to celebrate your arrival.