Panoramic terrace apartment in Castiglione del Lago, Umbria

Three bedrooms sit further in — a master with en-suite bathroom, a second double, and a smaller room — served by a family bathroom and a proper storage room. Downstairs on the ground floor, an open-plan 40 sqm studio with its own masonry kitchenette and bathroom makes room for guests, a home office, or a quiet writing corner. Outside, a private garden of about 180 square metres frames the terrace, and a private garage takes care of the practical side. The bones of the apartment are entirely intact — the frescoed ceilings, the arched interior doors, the antique tiled floors — and the light restyling still to come is really an invitation: to soften the palette, open the kitchen, and let the lake dictate the atmosphere. Real life is close at hand — supermarket, schools, banks and cafés all within a short walk of the front door. Perugia is 35 minutes by car, the A1 motorway junction just outside town, and Castiglione del Lago has its own station on the Rome–Florence line, with Terontola-Cortona and Chiusi a few minutes further for the fast trains. Cortona sits 20 minutes away across the lake, Assisi and Siena around an hour, Florence and Rome both under two. A rare thing: a serious historic apartment in a village people actually live in, with a terrace that keeps the lake in view from breakfast to the last of the evening light.