luxury architect villas for sale Lucca, Italy

TO READ THE FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY YOU CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE: WWW.AGENZIAIMMOBILIAREASIP.COM AND TYPE THE CODE 1590 FOR PRIVACY REASONS, THE ADDRESS AND POINTER ON THE MAP ARE PURELY INDICATIVE AND DO NOT CORRESPOND EXACTLY TO THE LOCATION OF THE PROPERTY, ON REQUEST WE WILL GIVE ALL THE NECESSARY INFORMATION. This beautiful eighteenth-century villa with its current configuration, with the symmetrical façade, the side terraces and the forepart at the back, dates back to 1836 while maintaining all the elements of neoclassicism typical of the period and of the architects Giovanni Lazarini and Lorenzo Nottolini operating in Lucca and authors of important works in Lucca, such as the works on the Villa Reale di Marlia for Elisa Baciocchi, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Teatro del Giglio for Maria Luisa of Bourbon, Porta Elisa in the walls of Lucca, the Specola, the aqueduct and urban planning works of Piazza Anfiteatro.Currently the villa is surrounded by a lock of about three thousand square meters, surrounded by green palm trees to the south and pines and holm oaks to the north. It is spread over three floors, ground floor, main floor and second floor, for a total of about one thousand four hundred square meters. On the main façade, facing south, the geometric score of the floors is highlighted, enhanced by the diversified treatment of the surfaces, with a fake ashlar on the ground floor of a different color from the floors above treated with smooth plaster, and from the string courses. The central part of the façade is highlighted by four pilasters with architrave and the central balcony with a cast iron railing. The symmetrical layout is further emphasized by the two side terraces. The second floor is enriched with brick draperies then painted on site according to the construction techniques of the time. Inside the villa an entrance with columns of considerable artistic value leads to various service rooms (kitchen, tavern, cellar), to an entirely frescoed apartment and to the main floor, through a wide staircase in Matraia stone with a period railing worked in cast iron. On the first floor there is a large living room with adjoining study, living room, various bedrooms and bathrooms, two side terraces adorned with terracotta statues. Many of the rooms are still frescoed today. The second attic floor with beams, wooden rafters and exposed terracotta bricks, normally inhabited by the servants, must be renovated. The terracotta or stone floors are original of the time as well as the doors and windows have been equipped with perziane. Of particular importance is the accentuation, both on the first floor and on the main floor, of the alignment of the doors with the effect of the so-called telescope which highlights a parade of communicating rooms, also typical of Lucca architecture of the period. The interiors are furnished with antique furniture, some of particular value. They belong to the villa and are located in the lock a...