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🏡 Living in Viterbo: Between Dream and Reality

  • Writer: Giano di Vico
    Giano di Vico
  • Jun 23
  • 2 min read


Viterbo is not a city to visit —it’s a city to live in.

It’s not enough to walk through it for a day, snap a photo of a fountain, or buy a pastry on the go.To live Viterbo means to enter its slow rhythm,to feel its ancient walls whispering never-ending stories,to dream in the shade of medieval towers,to discover a city that knows how to reinvent itself without losing its soul.

Living in Viterbo is a leap into the past — and, at the same time, a step into the future.

🏰 Living in a Medieval Palace: The Magic That Never Fades

Walking through the San Pellegrino district feels like stepping into an illuminated manuscript.

  • Towers of dark stone

  • Low-arched passageways

  • Flowering loggias suspended above narrow alleys

And yet, life here isn’t just about remembering.Inside those peperino walls, everyday life still beats:

  • Children playing ball on stone staircases

  • Elders chatting in the shade

  • Students rewriting the present among ancient stones

👉🏻 Buying a home in a medieval palace means inhabiting history — without becoming its prisoner.A delicate, magical, and rare balance.

🌳 A Country Home: Tuscia as a Secret Refuge

Just a few kilometers outside Viterbo, the landscape changes its breath.

  • Ancient vineyards steeped in sun and soil

  • Fields of hazelnut trees dancing in the wind

  • Tuff trails winding through forests

Living in a country house in Tuscia isn’t just a romantic escape —it’s a return to a human pace, made of seasons you feel on your skin,of vegetable gardens, of outdoor dinners beneath endless starry skies.

👉🏻 It’s a slower, deeper life,where the true luxury is waking up to birdsong and the scent of wood burning in the stove.

🖌️ The New Viterbo: Coworking, Craftsmen, and Contemporary Artists

But it’s not all about the past.

In recent years, Viterbo has begun writing a new chapter:that of a city able to attract young minds, creatives, and visionaries.

  • Coworking spaces born within restored convents

  • Contemporary craft workshops where medieval stone meets modern design

  • Artists' studios reinventing tradition with ancient materials and new ideas

👉🏻 Today’s Viterbo is a crossroads of inspiration —a place where you can live among medieval towers and ultra-fast Wi-Fi,between thousand-year-old walls and budding startups,between ancient dreams and a future ready to be written.

🛶 Practical Guide – Living in Viterbo

📍 Where to live:

  • Historic districts (San Pellegrino, Pianoscarano) for a true medieval dream

  • Viterbo countryside (Bagnaia, Roccalvecce, San Martino al Cimino) for a slower, more authentic life

⏱️ When to move:

  • Anytime — but autumn and spring reveal the city at its most intimate

🎯 Practical tips:

  • Look for homes with inner courtyards or hidden gardens: true secret treasures

  • Live the city slowly: every stone, scent, and square has something to teach you

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