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Location: Impruneta, Italy
Price: 14 million euros ($15.8 million)
At the end of a 1km-long, cypress-lined private drive, through the green, rolling Chianti landscape, is a beautiful 19th Century Florentine villa built by one of Florence's greatest architects, Poggi.
The designer, who took charge of demolishing the ancient city walls and replacing them with alleyways and squares, such as Piazza Beccaria and Piazza della Liberta, and the panoramic Viale dei Colli boulevard, was also a favorite with upper class Italians in the 1800s, who used him to create and renovate palazzo and gardens around the city.
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Villa Triboli has been in a wealthy family for generations, passed to current owner Count Simone Rucellai in 1991, when his grandmother passed away.
"When you hear of his childhood stories of playing cowboys and Indians in the woods one can only want the villa to be passed onto another large family to inspire," says agent Alasdair Pritchard, of Knight Frank.
"Villa Triboli is so enchanting. It deserves to be cherished as it has been by the Rucellais," he said.
Its location is particularly special, a peaceful rural Tuscan area but with very easy access to the magnificent renaissance city of Florence. It is just 15 minutes from the town center, and 30 minutes from the airport though you would never know it, gazing out at 100 hectares of mostly woodland grounds and six hectares of olive groves.
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The Stats
At 2,360 square meters, the main villa has 10 bedrooms and eight bathrooms, as well as a mezzanine with two staff bedrooms and a bathroom. Secondary buildings have two apartments.
Design Pedigree
The villa is designed in typical Tuscan style with green shuttered symmetrical windows and the distinctive terracotta roof typical of local vernacular architecture. The small town of Impruneta is famous for its terracotta, as well as its olive oil.
Inside are frescoes by Stefano Bardini, who gave his name to Florence’s Bardini Museum, while the gardens were designed by the famous Italian landscape architect Pietro Porcinai in the late 1950s. He also designed the large ornamental pool.
Amenities
There’s a media and music room, an orangery, and an underground wine cellar with a 19th Century gate house at the entrance to the estate.
The outdoor infinity swimming pool has views across the uninterrupted greenery of surrounding hills.
Agent: Alasdair Pritchard, Knight Frank
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