REF. CODE: 1667 TYPE: country house CONDITION: restored POSITION: hilly, very panoramic MUNICIPALITY: Città di Castello PROVINCE: Perugia REGION: Umbria SIZE: 660 square meters (7,102 square feet) TOT. N° OF ROOMS: 18 BEDROOMS: 9 (up to 13) BATHROOMS: 5+ FEATURES: stone walls, wooden beams, terracotta floors ANNEX: drying barns to be restored ACCESS: unpaved road (800 m) POOL: no, but possible ELECTRICITY: already connected WATER: mains water + private well TELEPHONE: to be connected ADSL: yes GAS: LPG HEATING: radiators GARDEN: 2,000 sqm (0.5 ac) LAND: 9,000 square meters (2.2 acres)
NEAREST TOWNS
Town with services (5km; 5'), Città di Castello (9km; 10’), Citerna (10km; 15’), Monterchi (11km; 15’), Anghiari (19km; 25’), Sansepolcro (19km; 25’), Umbertide (32km; 30’), Arezzo (37km; 40’), Castiglion Fiorentino (39km; 45’), Cortona (54km; 1h), Perugia (61km; 50’), Passignano sul Trasimeno (71km; 1h), Montepulciano (83km; 1h 20’), Siena (104km; 1h 30’), Florence (113km; 1h 40’)
NEAREST AIRPOTRS
Perugia San Francesco (60km; 45’), Firenze Vespucci (131km; 1h 40’), Pisa Galilei (191km; 2h 20’), Bologna Marconi (194km; 2h 20’), Roma Ciampino (242km; 3h), Roma Fiumicino (260km; 3h)
PRICE
Currently unavailable
DESCRIPTION
STONE VILLA WITH HORSE STABLES FOR SALE IN UMBRIA
At the border between Umbria and Tuscany, in a hilly and panoramic position, stone farmhouse with 14.0 hectares of land and horse stables. The country house, recently restored, includes 9 bedrooms on three floors and boasts all the features commonly found in countryside buildings. Two barns to be restored would allow creating two cozy guesthouses.
Services are all available in Città di Castello (roughly 9 km) and other cities of Umbria and Tuscany are reached in less than two hours (Anghiari, Sansepolcro, Castiglion Fiorentino, Cortona, Perugia, Siena, Florence…).
The airport in Perugia is the closest one (61km; 50’) but the terminals in Florence, Pisa, Bologna and Rome are equally convenient.
DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDINGS
The main country house (570 sqm – 6,133 sqft, 9 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms) is laid over three floors organized as follows:
- Ground floor: entrance hall dividing the floor into two sections; on one side there are living room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom; on the other one a kitchen, living room, dining room and bathroom;
- First floor: six double bedrooms, three of which with en-suite bathroom;
- Second floor: two bedrooms and four rooms in builder's finish (which could be finished into four more bedrooms for the property).
Completing the property we can also find two old drying barns (45 sqm each) to be restored.
The house is surrounded by 2,000 sqm of well-maintained garden, entirely fenced, and roughly 7,000 sqm of arable land all around.
The word Villa refers to an architectural typology whose meaning has evolved over the centuries. In the Roman Age, the villa was a house built for the upper classes. In the Post Roman Age, villa referred to a sort of village, similar to a fortified and self-sufficient farm whose inhabitants were called "villani" or "villici". It is with the architect and philosopher Leon Battista Alberti and his masterpieces Villa and De re edificatoria that the Villa starts to be considered as a place of pleasure and leisure. In the Renaissance villas, the first example of which is considered Villa Medici in Fiesole, the typically military and defensive features of rustic medieval castles are, for the first time, abandoned. This new conception of villa starts, therefore in Tuscany and, then, spreads to other courts of Italy and Europe. The Palladian villas, built in the sixteenth century in the area of Vicenza and along the Riviera del Brenta, represent examples that remained very influential for over four centuries.
It is very interesting to note how the term "villa" is commonly used in the English language. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, in fact, even in England this new architectural style became fashion and the word "villa" was so officially adopted also by the into English language. In the nineteenth century people began to talk about Villas simply referring to isolated buildings in the countryside, to emphasize the contrast with the houses joined together. This is a brief history of the architectural style protagonist of this portal, the Villa, whether we are talking about a farmhouse converted into a prestigious dwelling, a modern villa, a castle, a Medicean villa or a villa abroad.