Majestic Noble Period Villa For Sale Between Milan And Lecco

This ancient noble estate for sale is surrounded by a two-hectare private park, inside the Montevecchia and Curone Valley Regional Park, in a natural protected area in Lombardy, in the Brianza area, between Milan and Lecco.

Designed in the style of a romantic English garden with monumental trees, the park occupies an entire panoramic hill with two belvedere terraces from the early twentieth century and it is enriched by numerous scenographic fountains. A luxurious annex joins the main villa near the main entrance of the complex. Today home to two welcoming apartments, it is a building dating back in all probability to the 18th century in its original nucleus and therefore considered the oldest artefact of the entire property, the first to appear in the maps of the Teresian Land Registry.

Today the property is a magnificent private home and a chosen place of artistic creation, thanks to its large spaces equipped with laboratories and workshops for various processes, with an impressive internal surface area of 1,100 sqm. The spaces of the Villa, as well as the romantic gardens, have hosted illustrious people and noble families, nuns of the Benedictine order and, more recently, prestigious families of the Milanese bourgeoisie of the 20th century. Following various uses over time, the interiors have only recently been restored and brought back to their former splendor, the features of the period wonderfully recovered.

The Villa today displays all its original romantic charm in its interiors, distributed over three floors offering a total of 13 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms, and in the charming basement, with two deep wells that once supplied the daily water requirement and two flues with vents on the roof, testifying to the ancient use of these rooms for the accessory functions necessary for the daily life of the owners, in an era in which kitchens, pantries and laundries were separated from the noble rooms upstairs. Currently, the basement is a space entirely dedicated to relaxation and well-being, home to a wine cellar with a tasting room, a fitness room with a sauna, some study rooms and a big event hall.

All around, the wonderful two-hectare park surrounding the Villa shows off the most typical layout of classic English gardens, embellished with classically inspired artefacts and characterized by a multitude of rare tree species from all over the world, as well as monumental specimens such as the centuries-old giant sequoia but also libocedars, yews, beech trees, cedars, cypresses and chestnut trees.

To further enrich the Villa's park, two panoramic terraces offer splendid views of the entire surroundings from the balconies. Both dating back to the early 1900s and recently restored, one stands on the top of the hill in the park and the other, called the "Belvedere", to the south of the complex, from which it is possible to admire a view that extends to the east up to the Bergamo Prealps.