Description
Majestic eighteenth-century noble villa for sale in a strategic position a few kilometers from Pisa and the Tyrrhenian coast. The property is made up of a main body with three floors and two side bodies with two floors, for a total of over 40 rooms for a total area of approximately 2,500 m2 + attics, as well as outbuildings for a further 320 m2. Considered one of the most important buildings in the Pisan area, it has been the subject of studies and editorial publications, as well as the setting for films. The building complex has been declared of considerable historical and artistic interest pursuant to Legislative Decree 42/2004. The villa is decorated with magnificent frescoes and has a park of approximately 11,000 m2 with large secular trees, as well as an additional adjacent plot of land of approximately 1,300 m2, where a swimming pool or tennis court can be located. INTERIORS The entrance from the public road leads into what was once the carriage hall, a large room with cross vaults, which still has the original sandstone floor intact and opens onto the north garden towards the stable through a double brings. The main entrance from the park, on the other hand, gives access, through the stone portal dominated by the coat of arms of the ancient owners, to a bright hall with columns and barrel vaults, decorated with refined motifs that are repeated in various rooms of the residence. On the ground floor, adjacent to the atrium of the carriages and preceded by an elegant frescoed hall, is the oratory, decorated by Tempesti with an admirable trompe-l'oeil effect which widens the spaces into spectacular aisles and side galleries. The noble floor is accessed via the monumental triple-volume staircase with sandstone steps and balustrade with columns in white Carrara marble, entirely surrounded by large monochromes in warm ocher tones depicting the divinities Bacchus, Ceres and Minerva and surmounted by a polychrome vault depicting the Muses on Mount Helicon, with Apollo presiding as God of Music. The second floor is accessed from another staircase, located in what was probably the initial nucleus of the residence. A further staircase, formerly called "the secret staircase", connects the three floors. In the main body, around the two main staircases and on the sides of the large double-volume central hall, there is a series of large frescoed rooms, sometimes connected in pairs by an internal door. The two-storey side building facing the south garden was originally a loggia and was redesigned in the 19th century, in the Gherardesca style, to house a large and very bright room, probably wanted by the former owner, a musician, as a theater-auditorium for his compositions.
