The backcountry of the region Marche is dotted with country houses, sometimes centuries old buildings, and sometimes more recent buildings, that have the features of being located far from the frenzy of the city and modernity, becoming almost a shelter and barrier against stress and other “evils of the city” for those who live there.

Country Houses of the region Marche: “rustic houses”

Those building are quite often described as “rustic house”, from the latin word “rusticus”, which comes from “rus”, which means actually countryside. From an architectural point of view, we have to distinguish rustic houses from rural houses, even though the two adjectives look very similar (in fact also the word “rural”, comes from “rus”). The rustic architecture is associated to simple men and their work, to fatigue and passion of those families who have worked the land for generations every day with determination, and built their houses stone after stone. On the contrary, rural architecture is the symbol of country buildings, whose projects were developed by educated technicians and artists, often in order to build a house for aristocratic or wealthy families.

Rustic house: the genuine country house

Dictionaries describe a rustic house as genuine but laborious. For this reason we at Marche Country Homes believe that real country houses are rustic houses, beautiful and basic houses built by skilled, aware and passionate professionals. In those buildings you can enjoy the most evocative stories of the past of the region Marche, such as the sharecropping. The building features of such houses are essential and make them so typical and unique: wooden beams and exposed stones, a warm fireplace in the main room and in the living room and often an outdoors well that used to be necessary to gather water. Then the prestigious location where rustic houses are usually built, even though nowadays distance is scarce and easily reached by car.

Our region is rich in those small corners of paradise: every country house has its own story to tell and sometimes it is necessary to do some restoration works, to make the building even more authentic and at the same time to make it your own. We at Marche Country Homes will be at your disposal to guide you and help you choose the country houses that are more suitable, with a free on-site inspection, and then support you with expertise and commitment, if necessary, during the renovation works of your new house.