From the end of the 19th century up to the 1950’s, many wealthy British families used to spend the winter season on the Italian Riviera. During this period, Alassio became a real British Colony with more than 2000 English residents. There was a chaplain to celebrate service in the colony’s Anglican[…]
Villa Felice was born by the will of Alessandria-born Renata Cellerino, a chartered accountant, who, together with her husband Roberto Mignone (a chartered accountant too), bought in 1992 a beautiful mansion dated from the early Nineteen century. Previously known as Villa Simondetti, the mansion was owned by the Simondetti lawyers,[…]
A little world from the past on Lake Lugano Overlooking the Italian shores of Lake Lugano, the villa houses books and artefacts that belonged to the writer Antonio Fogazzaro, who wrote and set his masterpiece “The Little World of the Past” there. Journey into the 19th century through its furniture, paintings[…]
Surrounded by a park of over 30,000 square meters, Villa Ghislanzoni is a venetian villa dating from the eighteenth century, in a complex architectural extensive and detailed, which is also Villa Gazzotti Marcello, designed and built by the famous architect Andrea Palladio, Unesco world heritage since 1994. Precious eighteenth-century statues[…]
Villa Guardatoia, owned by the Cecchi de Rossi family, is located in Pescia and overlooks the surrounding plain. It is set in Tuscany, in a land well known for its historical garden’s heritage and for the tradition of excellent nursery gardening. The Garden of Villa Guardatoia is open to the[…]
Villa I Cedri was built in the XVI century on a smaller pre-existing cluster dating back to the XIV century. It was first property of the Bardi and subsequently of the Compagnia del Gesù.In 1765, following the suppression of the church’s property, the villa was bought by Giovanni di Antonio[…]
Not far from the splendid Grado and Aquileia, Villa Iachia is a historic house from the eighteenth century protected by the Belle Arti, which opens the doors of this “corner of paradise” to provide a unique and charming holiday in its rooms full of history.The huge park and the meticulously[…]
Villa il Castellano lies between the rivers Chienti and Ete Morto. It is stands on the site of a Roman outpost and a subsequent medieval castle belonging to the Archdiocese of Fermo. In the 16th century, Giorgio Arianiti Comneo and his wife, the princess Colonna di Corsica, moved here from[…]
The ancient Cicaleto estate, composed of a 17th-century villa and a group of cottages, lies along the road in the Sargiano hills at the gates of Arezzo. Of particular note are the grounds, surrounded by a centuries-old boxwood hedge, bordering on the Sargiano forest, a nature preserve for rare species[…]
