Castiglione d'Orcia

In a very panoramic position on the rolling hills of Val d’Orcia, 542-m² luxury restored villa with swimming pool and olive grove. The property includes 7 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms and has been finely restored to preserve its rustic look without giving up on modern comforts. All around the country house there are 3.9 hectares of land with an olive grove.

The villa (542 m² – 5,832 ft², 7 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms) is laid over three floors as follows:

• Basement: two bedrooms, bathroom, technical rooms, laundry room, pantry and garage;
• Ground floor: entry with guest bathroom, double living room, dining room with open-space kitchen, veranda/game room with exit to the courtyard, wardrobe, two bedrooms and bathroom;
• First floor: sitting room, two bedrooms with en-suite bathroom, bedroom and bathroom.

The courtyard right in front of the farmhouse, enclosed by a stone wall, accommodates a nice barbecue for outdoor dining.Just below the main courtyard, another terrace houses the 10 × 8 swimming pool.

There was in the past a stone outbuilding near the farmhouse: this small barn was demolished since it was no longer recoverable and its volume could be exploited to create another small annex.

The farmhouse is surrounded by roughly 3.8 hectares of agricultural land, laid over the rolling hills of Val d’Orcia. Approximately half of this surface is covered by an olive grove (1.6 ha with 150 trees) while the remaining land is registered as arable and grazing land.

Set atop a hill in the Val d’Orcia, in an incredibly panoramic location, hamlet with medieval castle for sale. The property (over 4,100 sqm) boasts numerous buildings that allow one to actually dive in what is for all intents and purposes a virtually unaltered medieval village. The buildings are in need of renovation but one could easily convert the complex into a luxury hotel with 37+ bedrooms.

HISTORY OF THE CASTLE

The castle is already documented in the 12th century as a property of the Salimbeni family, until it was bought by the Republic of Siena between 1250 and 1258. The keep became a valuable defensive position for Siena until the mid-16th century when Florence conquered the whole Tuscany and all the fortresses in the Sienese region lost their relevance. The hamlet became a farming estate, owned by the Piccolomini-Clementini family.