Some places are just places.
Others change how you live.
Two small, intentional longevity communities in the hills of Sabina, Italy.
Two chapters. One vision.
Sixty minutes from Rome. Still early."We are such stuff as dreams are made on,
and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
What is it?
In the hills of northern Lazio, on lands that are already ours, we are building something rare.Not one community. Two.Each on its own land. Each with its own character. Both rooted in the same idea: that where you live should actively support how long, and how well you live.Osteria Nuova: FOR FAMILIESA community for people who are still in the middle of life. Parents with children, dogs, energy, and a desire to raise the next generation somewhere real.Eight to ten newly built homes around a large shared pool and a communal space where neighbours cook together, eat together, and watch their children grow up together. A place where the youngest residents form their own circle, their own MOAI before they even know what that word means.Solar energy. Sustainable construction. A landscape that teaches slowness without demanding it.Frasso Sabino: FOR THOSE WHOSE FAMILIES HAVE GROWNThe same philosophy. A quieter chapter.Six to eight homes for people who have already built the life, and are now ready to design what comes next. A shared pool. A communal table. Neighbours who chose this deliberately. People who have learned, over decades, what actually matters.No noise. No rush. Just the hills, the olive trees, and a circle of people who are done proving things.Both communities are in early stage. Which means this is the rare moment, when there is still room to shape what gets built, and how.
Why Sabina?
Why Frasso Sabino, and why not somewhere more recognisable?Why the hills of Sabina, and why not somewhere more recognisable?Exactly because of that.Sabina is not trying to impress anyone. It never learned how.What it has instead: stone, silence, olive trees that have been bearing fruit for decades, and people who still know their neighbours by name.Sixty minutes from Rome.
Ninety minutes from the Adriatic coast.
Two hours from Florence.A fraction of the price of better-known regions. And a quality of life that cannot be manufactured, only found.Comparable new construction in the area has moved from €1,500 per square metre a decade ago to over €2,200 today. International attention is quietly growing. The wellness real estate market in Italy is expanding at 50% annually, one of the fastest rates in the world.This is one of the last places in central Italy where the window is still open.
The Science Behind the Vision
The longest-lived populations on earth share four things.They move every day. Not in gyms, but in gardens, on hills, in their homes.
They eat simply, slowly, and together.
They know their neighbours. They are known by them.
And they know why they get up in the morning.Robin Dunbar, evolutionary psychologist at Oxford, spent decades establishing that genuine human community — the kind that sustains health and extends life — functions within a circle of roughly five to fifteen people.Eight homes is not an arbitrary number.It is a number small enough to be real.
The Homes
Two communities. Two sets of homes. Both fully customisable, the colours, the garden shaped in close conversation with the person who will live there.
Osteria Nuova FOR FAMILIESHomes designed for families — for the children, the energy, the dogs, families who need space and neighbours to grow up alongside.A large shared pool. A communal space where people cook together, eat together, and build the kind of community that takes years to form, and lasts decades.Construction is planned to begin soon.Floor plans and pricing available on request.Frasso SabinoHomes designed for a quieter chapter, for people who have already built the life, and are now ready to design what comes next.A shared pool. A communal table. A circle of people who chose this deliberately.This is early stage. Which means there is still room to shape what gets built, and how.Floor plans and pricing available on request.Solar energy. Rainwater harvesting. Native plants. Sustainable construction designed to last in both communities.
Who Is Behind This?
My name is Eszter Bíró-Héjja.
I was born in Hungary. I chose to build my life in Italy.Not for work. For a vision.I came here with my family, bought a house, built a life, and went through everything that entails. The beauty and the difficulty. The moments of bewilderment and the moments of absolute certainty.I stayed. And I learned.My background is in international partnerships, communications, and creating spaces, physical and human, where people feel genuinely welcome, seen, and at home. That experience now shapes everything I build.What I am building here is not just real estate. It is an answer to a question I have been asking for years: what does it actually look like to design an environment for a longer, better, more connected life?Osteria Nuova and Frasso Sabino are that answer. Two communities, two chapters, and the same deep conviction that where you live is one of the most important decisions you will ever make.If you choose this life, I will be here. Not just at the beginning, but long after the paperwork is signed, to make sure you arrive well, with clarity, with confidence, and with someone who has been through it walking alongside you.
The circle is forming.
Behind this project stands a construction team with more than ten years of experience building in the Sabina hills. They know this land, this landscape, and this way of building, carefully, and with the long term in mind.What is new is the vision that now shapes what we build.Osteria Nuova and Frasso Sabino are the first communities designed from the beginning around the principles of longevity, intentional living, and genuine human connection.The circle is forming. With the right people, at the right moment, in the right place.If you feel that this is your place, or your moment, I would love to hear from you.
A Vision Taking Root
A Vision Taking Root
The land is ours. The vision is clear. The communities are forming.
Two places in the hills of Sabina. Two chapters of the same story. Both in early stage, which means this is the rare moment when there is still room to be part of something before it exists.Not as a buyer. Not as an investor. As a founder.The people who come in now will shape what gets built. They will be remembered as part of the beginning. And they will have chosen this deliberately, early, and well.If something in what you have read feels familiar, not just interesting, but true, I would love to talk.Write to me directly. I read every word.
The Sabina Circle
Thirty-one days of living the way the longest-lived people do. From wherever you are.
Thirty-one days of living the way the longest-lived people do. From wherever you are.
What is it?
What is it?
Longevity is rarely a matter of discipline. It is a matter of rhythm, and of the people around you.
The longest-lived communities on earth share a few quiet habits.
They move every day without calling it exercise.
They eat simply, and together.
They stay close to the people who matter.
And they know why they get up in the morning.
The Sabina Circle is an invitation to live that rhythm for one month.
it is not a diet, and not a programme. It is a small circle of people, a few gentle practices, and letters from the hills of Sabina, an hour from Rome.
The practices
Every day:
Meals without meat.
Ten minutes of movement, outdoors if you can.
In the evening, one sentence about why the day was worth getting up for.
Every week:
A call or a letter to someone you have lost touch with. A live conversation with the circle.
Over the month:
One long table: A gathering of family or friends that you prepare slowly and hold together before the holidays.
Over the month:
One long table: A gathering of family or friends that you prepare slowly and hold together before the holidays.
Who walks with you?
I’m Eszter. I was born in Hungary and chose to build my life in Italy, where I am now creating two small longevity communities.
For thirty-one days, I will be with you personally: in the letters, in the weekly conversations, and in the circle itself.
When?
Three free days:8–10 November
Three letters from Sabina, each with a short video, one small thing to do and one question to answer. On the last evening, an open conversation with me, live.The founding circle:15 November – 15 December
Thirty-one days, limited to twenty people. Taking part is paid, at a founding price. The details arrive with the third letter.