| Luxury Historical Villa Medicea Pisa Tuscany |
- Property Ref : VILLA CAMELIA
- Type: Historical Tuscan Villa Medicea
- Condition: To be partially restored
- Position: Historical centre. Panoramic hilly position
- Municipality Pisa
- Province: Pisa
- Region: TUSCANY
- Size: 1600 mq (17222 square feet)
- Total n. of rooms: 35
- Bedrooms: 12
- Bathrooms: 4
- Features: Vaulted ceilings, wooden beams and hand made terracotta tiles, terracotta floors, frescoes, arches, old stone fireplace, private park.
- Annex: Yes, a dependence of 250 square metres (2691 square feet)
- Access: Asphalted road
- Pool: No. It would be possible both an internal and external one.
- Electricity Yes, already connected.
- Water: Yes, natural spring of water + mains water
- Telephone: Yes, already connected
- Gas: Yes, already connected
- Heating: Yes
- Land: 3500 mq
- Nearest Towns: Arezzo (148,6 km;1 h 33); Cortona (189km; 1h 55); Siena (136km;1h31 ); Pienza(188km;1h56); Montepulciano (181km;1h 52); Anghiari (174km;1h 56); Lago Trasimeno (197km; 2h 3); Assisi (233km; 2h 41); Gubbio(267km 2h 48); Spello(241km;2h 46); Todi (263km; 2h 34)Orvieto (238km;2h 14); Roma (341km; 3 h 32)
- Nearest Airports: Pisa G.Galilei(26,9; 30);Perugia SantEgidio (231km; 2h16); Firenze Peretola(68km; 46); Forlμ(235km;2h 36); Pisa G.Galilei(26,9; 30); Bologna G.Marconi( 155km; 1h34); Roma ciampino (351km;3h 31), Roma Fiumicino (367km, 3h 43), Ancona Falconara(366km; 3h 35)
- Country: Pisa
- Price: 4,000,000
DESCRIPTION:
Right on the top of a gentle hill surmounting a small town, erected in the 16th Century on the ruins of an old Fortress, this important Villa used to be an accommodation for the Grand Dukes (Medici) during shooting seasons.
The building has been developed around the 17th Century by the administrator of an old farm, located near Pisa, belonging to the Medici family.
At the beginning of the 18th Century the noble family passed it into the hands of Giovanni Maria Berti who kept the property for some years until Santi Banti bought it.
With this new owner the property changed its destination from a Casa Padronale, especially used to control the agricultural production, to a noble villa, which should have reflected the prestige of the family to which it belonged to. It is for this reason that Pietro Giarrè, a famous Florentine painter, has been invited to decorate the villa.
The Villa is disposed on four levels with the same internal disposition: the entrance is from the living room through which are reachable the other frescoed rooms.
The central floors, the noble ones, are completely restored and already habitable, though the attic floor, once used as a drying-room for fruit, still needs some works like the cellars do.
The restoration needed especially by the attic room would include also the development of the living area by adding some other bathrooms, which are, compared to the bedrooms that the Villa currently has, in lack.
Each floor has independent entrance and three of them are directly linked with the terraced garden.
The renascent part of the garden (Parco dei Fiori) is accessed through the Noble floor ; the camellia’s garden through the ground floor and the one with fruits through the cellars.
There is also a natural cavern under the ground which used to be a secret passage to the adjacent town. Though this is not practicable anymore, there is still an old boundary wall which dates back to the medieval age.
The property is completed by an attached outbuilding, currently lived by the owner and a beautiful park with fountains flown by a small river above the property.
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