Interest list open · Autumn 2027

Umbria, Italy

The green heart of Italy · A small family-run farm stay in the hills · Our first cohort in Italy
25 Oct to 22 Nov 2027 4 weeks Your own stone apartment Olive harvest season
Umbria, Italy 25 Oct to 22 Nov 2027 Confirming by 25 July 2027
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Umbria cohort: 25 Oct to 22 Nov 2027 4 weeks · Interest list open
Lauren and Tiago, Cohli founders
Lauren & Tiago

The month when everyone else has gone home

We walked this land in October. Stone houses on a hill, woods on every side, a pond, old olive trees, and a family who have spent years bringing the farm back to life.

It is not a summer place, and we are not selling it as one. Late October and November in Umbria are for fires, soup, mushrooms and long walks in a coat. The olives come in, the oil is pressed, and the hill towns are left to the people who live in them.

That is exactly why we want to be there. Our best months have never been about the weather. They are about a few families close enough to knock on each other's doors, children who disappear into the woods together, and evenings that go on longer than planned.

This is our first time in Italy and the details are still being settled with our hosts. So the price on this page is a ballpark, and we say so wherever it appears. What will not change is the shape of the month.

If a slow autumn sounds like your family, tell us now. The first few who say yes are the ones who shape it.

A presto,
Lauren & Tiago

Lauren and Tiago are the co-founders of Cohli and parents of two (Maya, 5, and Koa, 3). Over 40 combined years, they have lived and travelled through 30+ countries, and have been designing family coliving since 2024.

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4 weeks
28 nights
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Your own apartment
Stone, heated, with a kitchen
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Weekdays
Kids Programme
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Late October
The olive harvest
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Woods
On every side
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Hill towns
Medieval, and close
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First
Cohli cohort in Italy
The Place
A small farm on a hill, with woods all around

Umbria is the region between Tuscany and Rome that most visitors drive past. Our hosts are a family who run a small organic farm stay in its northern hills: a cluster of old stone buildings turned into apartments, with herb gardens, heirloom grains, old olive trees, a wood oven and a pond. Each family has its own apartment with its own kitchen. Families live a few steps from one another. Parents supervise their own children throughout, except during the scheduled hours of the Kids Programme.

Our hosts' farm stay in the hills of Umbria
Wooded hills in Umbria, seen from the farm
Inside one of the stone apartments
The pool at the farm, photographed in summer

The photographs on this page are our hosts' own, taken in the warmer months. If you are reading this and one of them is no longer right, tell us and it comes down.

Your apartment

A heated stone apartment with your own kitchen, allocated to your family by size and shape. The apartments are all different, as old buildings are: some have two bedrooms, some are open plan. We publish the layout of each one, and what the heating arrangement is, once it is agreed with our hosts in writing and before anyone books.

The Surroundings

Woods and farm tracks from the door. Medieval hill towns a short drive away, with their markets, towers and Saturday bustle. Assisi, Perugia and Lake Trasimeno for day trips. Rome and Florence within reach for a weekend.

Honestly
More woods and kitchens than pool days

Three things we would rather you read here than discover on arrival. First, this is late autumn in the hills. Expect cool days, cold nights, some rain and fog, and short afternoons. The pool is closed. Second, the farm is rural, so you will want a car for shopping and for the hill towns. Third, the wifi reaches every apartment but is patchy outdoors.

What you get in return is Italy with nobody in it, a fire to come home to, and food that is at its best this time of year.

What's Included
What a month here holds

Some of this is still being agreed with our hosts. Where it is, we say so.

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Your own apartment

A heated stone apartment with its own kitchen, for the four weeks, with the rest of the cohort a few steps away.

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Kids Programme

On weekdays, with our own educators, for ages 1 to 12. Child-led and outdoors as much as the weather allows: the woods, the farm, the harvest, the kitchen. Teenagers are very welcome in the cohort. The exact hours and the children's base are being set with our hosts and appear here once they are agreed.

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The community

Families chosen and matched by us, welcome calls before you land, an opening circle, parent circles, and someone holding the month so that it is yours to live.

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Food

You have your own kitchen. Our hosts also cook, from their own farm, and families will be able to sign up for meals at the hosts' own prices, with no Cohli mark-up. Those prices are not settled yet, so meals are not in the ballpark below.

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The farm

The land, the woods, the pond and the gardens. Late October is the olive harvest, and families who want to can join in.

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Working from here

Each apartment has its own internet line. We have asked our hosts for measured speeds and will publish them here, good or bad, before anyone books. Until then, plan on a mobile data backup for any call you cannot miss.

Daily Rhythm
What a week looks like

There is a rhythm, not a rigid schedule. In November it follows the light.

Weekdays
Kids Programme
With our own educators, for ages 1 to 12. The exact hours appear on this page once they are agreed with our hosts.
Weekday daytime
Parents work, walk, cook
A desk in your apartment, a path through the woods, or a slow lunch. Nothing is scheduled for adults in these hours, on purpose.
Afternoon
Outside while it is light
Children come back to their parents. The woods, the pond, the playground, a ball on the grass.
Some evenings
A long table
Shared dinners for the families who want them, cooked by our hosts from the farm. There is a wood oven, and pizza night is a tradition of the house.
Through the month
Circles and harvest
An opening circle, parent circles, and whatever the farm is doing that week.
Weekends
Yours
A hill town market, a day in Assisi, a train to Rome, or a fire and a book.
The Dates
One month, late autumn
The four weeks

25 October to 22 November 2027

28 nights. Age bands are set by each child's age on 25 October 2027, so a birthday during the cohort moves nobody.

These dates are in term time, so this suits families who school at home or can travel outside the holidays. They also follow on from our Kos cohort, which ends on 18 October, for families who want a whole autumn.

Pricing
What it costs, as a ballpark

We would rather show you an honest range than nothing. 1 adult + 1 child: around €4,750 to €5,250 for the four weeks. 2 adults + 2 children: around €6,200 to €6,700. That is your apartment, the Cohli Programme Fee and the Kids Programme, before meals.

About €4,750 to €5,250
1 adult + 1 child · own apartment · four weeks, before meals
Apartment and programme
25 Oct to 22 Nov
Your family, a ballpark for the four weeks, before meals
1 adult + 1 child · own apartment about €4,750 to €5,250
2 adults + 2 children · own apartment about €6,200 to €6,700

How it adds up. Your family's apartment, about €3,300 to €3,800 for the four weeks. Plus the Cohli Programme Fee, €950 per adult (up to two adults). Plus the Kids Programme, €500 per child.

Meals are separate. You have your own kitchen. Meals cooked by our hosts are paid at their own prices, with no Cohli mark-up.

A different family shape? Tell us in your application and we send you your own figure, built the same way.

This is a ballpark while we finalise our agreement with the hosts. Nothing is final until we sign. Your price is locked when you book, and if it comes down before the cohort, we pass that on. You can apply now, with no payment at this stage. We confirm this cohort by 25 July 2027.

In the ballpark

  • ✓Your family's apartment
  • ✓The Kids Programme on weekdays, with our educators
  • ✓Our community programming
  • ✓The farm, the woods and the gardens

Bought separately

  • •Flights and travel
  • •A hire car
  • •Meals and groceries
  • •Laundry
  • •Travel insurance
Before you decide
Where this cohort stands today

We are still finalising our agreement with the hosts. Until it is signed there is nothing to pay and nothing to sign. You can apply now, we get to know your family, and you hear from us first when booking opens.

We confirm this cohort by 25 July 2027, and we write to you either way. If it does not go ahead, everything you have paid by then comes back to you in full.

Getting There
How to reach the farm

By air

Perugia (PEG) is the closest airport, with a small number of routes. Rome and Florence have far more flights and are each a drive of a few hours.

By car

The farm is in the countryside, so plan on a car for the month. We share exact directions and travel times with accepted families.

Visa

Italy is in the Schengen area. Most nationalities get 90 days visa free, and the 90 day rule counts any other Schengen days in the same window, so check yours, above all if you come on from Greece. We share specific guidance after acceptance.

Questions About This Cohort
What families ask about Umbria
Because our agreement with the hosts is not signed yet. The range is our honest ballpark. Your price is locked when you book, and if it comes down before the cohort, we pass that on.
It is late autumn in the hills: cool days, cold nights, some rain. The apartments are heated. Come for woods, kitchens and hill towns, not for the pool, which is closed.
Yes, plan on one. The farm is rural, and shops and the hill towns are a drive away. Families often share lifts and shopping runs once they have arrived.
The Kids Programme is for ages 1 to 12, on weekdays. Teenagers are very welcome in the cohort. For under 3s and over 12s we agree with you before you book what the day looks like.
Yes. Kos ends on 18 October and Umbria starts on 25 October, which leaves a week to travel between them. Tell us in your application.
No. It is a children's programme run by our own educators on weekdays. It does not replace formal enrolment. Families who keep a home school or an online school running do that alongside it, and most do.

Umbria, Italy, autumn 2027

The interest list is open. No payment at this stage: a one-minute form, then the full application. We confirm this cohort by 25 July 2027.

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