The villa was constructed around the middle 1800’s by Prof. Luigi Paolotti, a Baron of a noble Perugian family, relative of Prince Barberini of Rome, Pope Pio IX and Napoleon III. It was the family’s country house, one of many they owned  in the area of Bettona, a small town of etruscan origins situated amongst green hills of olive trees and woods at very short distance from Perugia and Assisi.

After a brief period of abandonment, the heirs renovated carefully, respecting the original plan of their ancestors and paying especial attention to the frescoes in the sitting room, the upper hall and the bedrooms.