The organic farm & guesthouse “Tra Cielo e Terra (Between Heaven and Earth)” is located a few kilometers away from Todi, in the district of Frontignano. In an excellent panoramic position, the building reflects the features of the 16th century Umbrian architecture, consisting of an old rectangular farmhouse whose original nucleus dates back to the early 1700’s, and a higher tower-shaped building, renovated a decade ago, useful at the time as a lookout point. Because of the presence of spring water, the area was called “Vocabolo Orto”, that is to say area for vegetable gardens, for the nearby fortified castle of Frontignano.
Our apartments
The apartments made available for the guests, “Lavanda” and “Calendula-Salvia”, are positioned in the part of the Tower, on two separate floors. Functional and spacious, they have ceilings with wooden beams and exposed tiles, window architraves and antique wooden doors with vintage furnishings. Our structure is surrounded by greenery with 400 olive trees, secular oaks and garden around the salt pool, which is available to the guests. The main goal we set is the wellbeing of our guests. For our structure we received 4 “spighe” (stars) from the Umbria Region.
Activities
During your stay with us you can visit the surrounding cities of Todi, Assisi, Perugia, Spoleto. Nature lovers can practice outdoor sports like canoe on the closeby lake of Corbara, horseriding, tours on e-bike or trekking on the Sibilini mountains.
Our organic farm
The farm with 5 hectares of surface and a small forest, produces extra virgin olive oil and grows spelled wheat, producing flour, pearl spelled wheat and pasta, as well as organic essential lavender oil.
Sustainability
Our farm is environmentally friendly and uses low environmental impact technologies, using renewable energy to produce domestic hot water and heating. We have a photovoltaic system for the production of electricity and solar heating for the production of hot water and underfloor heating. Eight solar thermal panels provide domestic hot water to the entire structure from April to October and integrated in the remaining months, the heating is produced through an economical stove and a pellet boiler with automatic refilling, a 2000 litres tank accumulates the energy produced by the sun or wood. Electricity is produced by a 2.8 kW photovoltaic system.