Villa la Penna, Historic villa with swimming-pool , Coreglia Antelminelli | TuscanHomes real estate

Villa la Penna, Historic villa with swimming-pool sold

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  • square metres 525 M2
  • bedrooms
  • bathrooms

Villa La Penna is located in the historic center of Coreglia Antelminelli, a medieval village in the Media Valle, just 30 minutes from the splendid city of Lucca. In a dominant position, just as its name suggests, which derives from a Lombard toponym meaning "rock spur", the Penna bastion was a place of sighting and defense since the early Middle Ages, the loopholes still visible on the sides of the he ancient wall tells us about wars between Ghibellines and Guelphs! In the 1500s the house was owned by the Arnolfini nobles from Lucca. Subsequently, at the end of the 18th century, Father Francesco Marroni became its owner, who designed the garden. In 1829 the Villa was enlarged and in 1898 it was purchased by the family of the current owners to use it as a summer residence while maintaining the charm of an ancient country house: the frescoed ceilings, the small study, the nineteenth-century furniture ... tell us of an ancient past … . Villa La Penna is already divided into three residential units with independent entrances: Ground Floor, Second Floor, Third Floor and are composed as follows: Ground Floor: two bedrooms, two bathrooms, two living rooms, and kitchen. the ground floor overlooks the entire nineteenth-century garden, designed by box trees with a large Limonaia, a small house where there is a wood-burning oven. Second Floor or "Piano Nobile": Located on the outside of the house overlooking the village of Coreglia, the large door built in the Napoleonic period opens onto the staircase that leads to the various floors. The main floor consists of a large hall with a majolica fireplace and is decorated with a Greek Liberty.The other two rooms, one with a marble fireplace (both with nineteenth-century decorations), and a small frescoed study, three bedrooms and two bathrooms, one of which with a decorated ceiling.From one small room you go to the kitchen and dining room and to another room from where you can access the entrance garden through a service door.The noble apartment has a large terrace that overlooks the entire valley and from this you can can go down to the garden.Third floor: large hall, with large stone fireplace, three bedrooms, three bathrooms, kitchen (to be completed) and living room with marble fireplace.The bathrooms have all been renovated with quality materials, terracotta floors originals in the main rooms, and in wood in some rooms. The ancient roof garden obtained from the fifteenth-century bastion, the unique view over the entire valley, the house with its past made up of travelers who traveled the world, but who then returned to this ancient house …….. There is no person who don't be fascinated by this place !!

  • Energy Class: G
  • Square metres: 525
  • Price: 950.000
  • Rooms: 15
  • No extras