Historic villa between Assisi and Perugia for sale

Brief description

Formal villa surrounded by a 7-ha plot of land with a garden, swimming pool, fruit trees, olive grove, vineyard, and a horse-riding area. The villa’s net saleable area is 964 sq.m, besides 2 terraces, the portico, and 3 outbuildings that can be used as storage rooms and workshops. It includes several airy living areas, 4 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms.

Geographic position

Villa Elegantia is an exclusive historic residence surrounded by a 7-ha plot of land. It’s fifteen minutes from Assisi (10 km) and Perugia (17 km), half an hour from Spello (25 km) and Lake Trasimeno (36 km), and one hour from Todi (48 km) and Spoleto (61 km).

The nearest built-up area for your daily errands is just 2 km away.

In addition to being particularly appealing to tourists, the area is well-connected and well-served. That’s why Villa Elegantia is perfect as a main residence and a holiday house, from where you can visit Central Italy’s most famous cities.

Families who decide to make it their main residence can benefit from the presence of two major international schools in Assisi and Perugia:

- the Assisi International School, which offers an innovative, comprehensive, and enhanced school curriculum that includes the Primavera (24-36 months), Nursery School (3-6 years old), Elementary School (6-11 years old), and Middle School (11-14 years);

- the International Montessori Centre, a private school for all ages, from nursery to high school students. It offers a bilingual Italian-English curriculum, where native-speaking teachers work with their students 5 hours a day.

Moreover, Perugia is a historic university hub and home of the prestigious University for Foreigners.

Golf lovers can play their favourite sport at Perugia’s Golf Club. This gently wavy 18-hole, par 72, 5,735-metre golf course has a central core that dates back to the late 1950s. Its clubhouse is an old lime furnace dating back to 1921 and has maintained the imposing towers overlooking the entire course, which hints at British golf courses.

The airport of Perugia is the nearest one (7 km, 10 minutes by car); whereas the airport of Ancona (106 km) can be reached in one hour and a half. Within two hours, you can get to the airports of Florence (178 km) and Rome (Ciampino is 190 km away and Fiumicino is 207 km away).

Description of buildings

Cypress trees outline the driveway leading to the villa. Its original layout dates back to the 16th century and still conceals important historical evidence from pre-Roman times and the 18th century.

Villa Elegantia has a net saleable area of 964 sq.m and develops over three floors. In addition, it has two terraces measuring 47 sq.m and 26 sq.m. The 40 sq.m portico has several entrances from the outside, allowing access to each floor of the villa.

Despite two airy living rooms and the 40 sq.m portico, the ground floor is mainly used as accessory rooms, with numerous storage rooms, cellars and a garage.

The first floor includes two living rooms, a kitchen, two studies, a large storage room, a bedroom with an en-suite bathroom, an additional bathroom, and two terraces, one of which leads to two other rooms that can be used as a living room and dining room.

The second floor houses a living/dining room, three bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and three studies.

Moreover, this property has 3 outbuildings that can be used as a storage room, workshop and cellar.

The area is calculated on the basis of the net floor area including interior partitions and increased by 10% for load-bearing walls. 

The portico area and the terraces are calculated separately and should be added to the total area.

State and finishing

This villa has been renovated and is in excellent condition.

In particular, the renovation involved the roof, water supply system, bathrooms, underfloor heating and air conditioning system, and electrical system. In addition, the villa has been set up for the installation of a home automation system.

External areas

Villa Elegantia is surrounded by a flat 7-ha plot of land with a swimming pool, fruit trees, olive trees, walnut trees, a vegetable garden, and two greenhouses.

The property also includes horse-riding areas with stables, paddocks, a sand field and a roundabout.

Use and potential uses

Due to its strategic position halfway between Assisi and Perugia, Villa Elegantia is perfect as a main formal residence or a holiday home. You can also rent it when not in use.

Distances and location

Umbria - Italy

Neighboring regions: Toscany, Lazio, Marche

Main centers: Perugia, Assisi, Spoleto, Todi, Orvieto, Gubbio, Spello

 

Characteristics: is the sister of Tuscany region, green and hilly territory with olive groves and vineyards, rich in art cities and quaint towns.

Placed in Central Italy between Rome and Florence, Umbria is a region rich in history and culture, from the hilly landscape with olive groves and vineyards, and dotted with historic villages and artistic cities such as Perugia (important international University Centre), Spoleto, Orvieto, Todi, Assisi, Spello and others.

15 minutes from Perugia is located Lake Trasimeno, the largest Italian lake after that of Como.

The climate is mild with temperatures in winter rarely fall below zero degrees and summer temperatures around 25 degrees.

The region is the scene of major cultural events throughout the year (such as the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto and Umbria Jazz) and many other folk events which, especially in summer, enliven small and large centers of the entire territory.

 

Property offer: Umbria, with its Green and hilly territory is particularly required for purchasing original characteristic stone farmhouses, very similar to those of Tuscany, in the countryside around the major cities of art such as Todi, Spoleto, Orvieto, Perugia, Assisi or in the popular area of Valley of Niccone or of Trasimeno.  These are often finely renovated farmhouses with park and pool, which are well suited to use for vacation but also for investment with the ability to put them in the lease through touristicrental. Umbria has a strategic position being located half an hour from Rome and two hours from Florence. The region, rich in history, offers you the chance to buy real estate like castles, vintage villas, villages and monasteries. Very popular are also the apartments within historical centers or small rural managed complexes, rich in original farmhouses of stone structure, particularly are requested those places in the countryside around the town of Todi, Spoleto, Assisi, Perugia and Orvieto, but also in the areas and Niccone Valley and Lake Trasimeno. Frequently also the historic buildings, ancient villas, castles and apartments in historic towns such as Perugia, Orvieto, Spoleto, Assisi, Spello, Trevi, or in small villages renovated and preserved.