The Torre Mansion with borgo and pool, Perugia - Umbria
Mid-1500s mansion coupled to a medieval towered borgo with four buildings for guests, historical park, and pool for sale near Perugia. Along the ancient Via Pievaiola just minutes from the historic center of Perugia, surrounded by Etruscan and medieval settlements with the nearby Castle of San Sisto dating back to the year 1000, Renaissance-style mansion together with a country estate with four separate buildings, one with medieval tower, for guest and agricultural use, park swimming pool and centuries-old cypress trees driveway. Built as a summer country residence in the second half of the 16th-century by an aristocratic Perugian family, it preserves its plastered facades with stone decorations, a monumental garden with swimming pool, interiors rich in original elements with frescoed ceilings and walls with 17th-century decorations and stone fireplaces. In 1667, funerary rooms were found on the basement floors of certain Roman origin along with a statue belonging to the noble Etruscan family "gens Vibia" from the 4th-3rd centuries B.C. still preserved today. Today, the entrance hall houses a modern elevator to the upper floors with five bedrooms, while the ground floor opens to a majestic reception room, a library and, with external access, a private chapel. An 18th-century room called "the bridge" connects the villa to the main borgo building, on three floors with a tower dated 1300 and perfectly preserved with stone facades and travertine decorations, recently upgraded into five apartments with two or three bedrooms. Slightly detached from the borgo, a building with stone and travertine facades is a second guest house with three bedrooms and storage rooms on the ground floor. In the garden, in front of the swimming pool, the former green house building, with ceilings up to 5.4 meters high and two porticos, is to be customized as a pool house or a guest apartment. A second outbuilding used for storage, on two levels, can also be converted into a guest residence with three/four bedrooms. Enchanting country setting on the outskirts of Perugia, unique character and historical features, perfect as a premier villa, banqueting and memorable events location or to host tourists for their vacations.
