Medicean Villa with park and DOCG vineyards, Florence - Tuscany
Stunning 15th-century listed villa with park, hamlet with country resort, vineyard, and olive grove for sale south of Florence. Rising elegantly over three floors and crowned by two dovecote towers, this distinguished 15th-century listed villa commands sweeping views across lined with vineyards and the rolling Chianti hills south of Florence. Its origins as a hunting lodge for a noble Florentine family remain legible in the architecture, while the six-ball Medicean crests and the twin towers added to the façade in the mid-1600s attest to its later acquisition by a branch of the De’ Medici family. The villa offers 1,590 sq m (17,114 sq ft) of interior space, enhanced by its extensive terrace and park, and is poised for a sympathetic renovation befitting its stature. A three-arched loggia on the ground floor leads into a welcoming foyer, followed by a study, living room, kitchen and a traditional orciaia. The first floor reveals a grand reception room opening onto a panoramic terrace, while a second loggia overlooks the villa’s secluded inner garden. A series of refined lounges, studies, dining rooms and bedroom suites occupies the first and second floors, culminating in the atmospheric dovecote towers and the attic level, where high timber-beamed ceilings preserve the rustic charm of the estate’s earliest chapters. By the late 18th century, the estate had expanded to include graceful farm buildings in the characteristic Leopoldine style, forming a rural hamlet that still frames the villa today and completes the picture of an historic rural domain. It comprises fifteen self-contained apartments totalling 1,252 sq m (13,476 sq ft), is presented in good condition. Additional deposits, warehouses, a historic oil mill and cellars add a further 1,260 sq m (13,563 sq ft) of structures. The estate spans 113 hectares (279 acres) of private land, extending southwest into productive olive groves and vineyards and northeast across arable fields, pasture and woodland. A property of exceptional historic and architectural significance, this Medicean-era estate offers a rare opportunity to steward a landmark of the Florentine countryside, equally suited to discerning private ownership or for an elegant country resort in one of Tuscany’s most coveted landscapes.
