Rif. 0255
Venice Venice Real Estate Lionard Luxury Real Estate Via dei Banchi, 6 - ang. Piazza S. Maria Novella 50123 Florence Italy Tel. +39 055 0548100 Fax. +39 055 0548150 DESCRIPTION Exclusive home in Venice Italy located on one of the most fascinating islands in the Venice s lagoon, ancient villa of 314 m2 surrounded by 12400m2 of grounds and a park of 883m2 that, together with the canal, represents a beautiful frame to the structure. The villa, in fact, is immersed in the characteristic nature of the island that, thanks to its particular paths, makes an atmosphere very suggestive. Two apartments have been created from the old luxury house and equipped with all mod cons. They host a dining room, a kitchen, a study, two bedrooms and two bathrooms one of which with Jacuzzi. Completing the property are a library and a music room. TECHNICAL DETAILS LOCATION
After the downfall of the Roman Empire, Torcello was one of the first lagoon islands to be successively populated by those Veneti who fled the terra firma (mainland) to take shelter from the recurring barbarian invasions, especially after Attila the Hun had destroyed the city of Altinum and all of the surrounding settlements in 452. Although the hard-fought Veneto region formally belonged to the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna since the end of the Gothic War, it remained unsafe on account of frequent Germanic invasions and wars: During the following 200 years the Longobards and the Franks fuelled a permanent influx of sophisticated urban refugees to the island s relative safety, including the Bishop of Altino himself. In 638 Torcello became the bishop s official see for more than a thousand years and the people of Altinum brought with them the relics of Saint Heliodorus, now the patron saint of the island. Torcello benefited from and maintaining close cultural and trading ties with Constantinople, after the fall of the western Roman Empire, but as a rather distant outpost of the Byzantine Empire it could establish de facto autonomy from the eastern capital. Torcello rapidly grew in importance as a political and trading centre: In the 10th century it had a population of at least 10,000 people and was much more powerful than Venice. Thanks to the lagoon s salt marshes, the salines became Torcello s economic backbone and its harbour developed quickly into an important re-export market in the profitable east-west-trade, which was largely controlled by Byzantium during that period. Fortunately for the island of rivus altus, the lagoon around the island of Torcello gradually became a swamp from the 12th century onwards and Torcello s heyday came to an end: Navigation in the laguna morta (dead lagoon) was impossible before long and the growing swamps seriously aggravated the malaria situation, so that the population abandoned the worthless island bit by bit and left for Murano, Burano or Venice. It now has a population of around 20 people. Interior surface: 314 m2 Exterior surface: 13200 m2 bedrooms: 2 bathrooms: 2 living rooms: 1 dining rooms: 1 Kitchen: 1 plus other rooms and technical areas garden: 883 m2 residential zoning: 12000 m2 total ground area: 13200 m2 Venice km 18 Padova km 47 Jesolo km 19 Udine km 115 - Trieste km 146 Venice Airport
km 10 Venice Golf Club km 24 Thermal Baths km 17 Highway exit: Venice km 11. Rif.: 0255 Price: On Application
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