Rif. 0249
Lionard Luxury Real Estate Via dei Banchi, 6 - ang. Piazza S. Maria Novella 50123 Florence Italy Tel. +39 055 0548100 Fax. +39 055 0548150 Pisa EXCLUSIVE VILLA IN PISA DESCRIPTION This splendid historic villa, took its actual shape between the end of XVIIIth century and the first half of XIXth century, thanks to architect Francesco Roncioni and to a team of architects who transformed this property from a house, with housing and agricultural functions to one of the best luxury homes in Italy. In this period the exteriors find a new arrangement with fountains, games and water course. One of the most particular properties for sale in Italy, the main villa is on four levels, one of which is a basement, it has a covered surface of 2.240 m2. Inside, many rooms show in a good condition of preservation yet frescos of Pasquale Cioffi and Giovanni Battista Tempesti: every room is a follow one after the other of caves and trompe-l oeil, with rococo ceilings, in line with the perspective conjuring of the end of XVIIIth century. The romantic external park planned by Antonio della Gherardesca has a surface of 6 hectares, in a course with natural elements, like water games, secular trees, bushes and artificial elements: still now
are part of the park: a chapel in neo-gothic style, decorated with pieces of XIVth coming from the church of Saint Francis in Pisa, two small temples, a cave with a barrel vault decorated with semiprecious stones, mother-of-pearls and shells, a guardian s house and a little unfinished castle. Very interesting is the building of the Bigattiera, it was planned by Antonio della Gherardesca in XIXth century for hosting a silkworms breeding. This splendid neo-gothic building of 680 m2, with the ancient Casa Marianna, a building of 1500 m2 used to host the workers, testify the entrepreneurial talent of Francesco Roncioni. This villa was the background of the love between Ugo Foscolo and Isabella Roncioni, immortalized by the poet in Teresa in the Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis which adds a tough of intimacy to this real estate in Tuscany. TECHNICAL DETAILS LOCATION Between the valley of Arno and Serchio, halfway between Pisa and Lucca, the Commune of San Giuliano rises. It is rich of history, of artistic and environmental beauty, inhabited by the Neolithic. It s in the Roman period that San Giuliano Terme knows its splendours: of that period is the aqueduct that lead the precious and beneficial thermal water to the Bagni di Nerone, the ancient name of Pisa s Thermal Baths. The eight arches of the Roman aqueduct, still now existing in Caldaccoli ( Calidae acquae ), are the unique traces of the Roman installation. After some century of abandoning, in XIIth century the thermal baths of San Giuliano knows a new life, thanks to the military successes of the Pisa Republic ( it s 1112 when Matilde di Canossa decides to renovate the thermal baths), but it is under the control of the Tuscan grand duchy, that the thermal baths return to a new splendour. From the 1406, when Pisa and its territory fall down the Tuscan domination, the Medici began the transformation of this village into a place of well-being for the nobility. Beginning from XVth century beautiful villas were built at the hands of important families, they utilized them as residences for holidays. The principal maker of San Giuliano remains the grand duchy of Tuscany Francesco I Lorena, who invested in the benefits of the thermal waters doing of San Giuliano its summer residence. During the second half of XVIIIth century San Giuliano hosted nobles, Italian and foreign artists. During these years important personality were guests of the thermal baths: Vittorio Alfieri, Michel de Montaigne, Percy Bysshe Shelly, Lord Byron, Luigi Bonaparte, Paolina Borghese, the prince of England, Giacomo Puccini and many others, to testify the fame of the thermal baths in that period. Interior surface: 5.000 m2
Exterior surface: 64.900 m2 Main Villa: 2.240 m2 Silkworm House: 680 m2 Marianna House: 1.520 m2 Guardian s House: 145 m2 Ruins of the Castle: 463 m2 Chapel Hermitage Venere s temple Baccus Temple Cave Park: 64.900 m2 Pisa km 10 Lucca km 14 Viareggio km 20 Forte dei Marmi km 40 Firenze km 80 Livorno km 30 Tirrenia Golf Club km 23 Pisa Airport km 11 Highway exit: Lucca East km 11. Rif.: 0249 Price: On Application
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