  We study a family of surfaces of general type with $p_g=q=2$ and $K^2=7$,
originally constructed by C. Rito. We provide an alternative construction of
these surfaces, that allows us to describe their Albanese map and the
corresponding locus $\mathcal{M}$ in the moduli space of the surfaces of
general type. In particular we prove that $\mathcal{M}$ is an open subset, and
it has three connected components, two dimensional, irreducible and generically
smooth.
