4 bedrooms palace, 1000 m²

Nocciano, Pescara (province)

Exceptional dale: former Franciscan Monastery to renovate with internal courtyard, currently “Mapei” historic palace with wonderful decorative frescoes that are still kept today in some rooms in the extraordinary historic center of the medieval hamlet of Nocciano. The convent once owned by the Franciscan order, was suppressed by the Neapolitan Edicts and afterward in 1817 was purchased by the Mapei family that restored it and adapted as a dwelling the former convent and commissioned the frescoes with decorations in Roman and Pompeian style. The property is disposed of in three levels: basement, ground and first floor for a total of approximately 1.000 sqm with an exclusive garden of approximately 430 sqm. Through a public square we arrive to the main entrance composed by ancient door in wood surmounted by a portal in Majella stone, entering we reach an entrance that leads to the massive staircase thar lead to the first floor or the courtyard; also through the square it is possible to access other rooms disposed on the ground floor with 3 other independent entrances, some of these rooms were used as ancient kitchens, others as shops; on the first floor there is the dwelling with wide frescoed living rooms and bedrooms and lastly on the basement floor we find the old stables and cellars. It is possible to reach the courtyard also through an external door. Closeby there are other properties of historic importance such as the De Sterlich Aliprandi castle, built in the XI-XII century, currently home to the Museo degli Artisti Abruzzesi Contemporanei, the baroque Sant'Antonio di Padova church and the San Lorenzo Romanesque parish church. In the enchanting hamlet there are all the essential services such as food stores, bakery, bar, restaurants, pizzerias, butchers, elementary and middle school, pharmacy, post office and it is a few km from the shopping centers. Closeby there are the best cellars of Italy to taste and purchase great Montepulciano d’Abruzzo wines. In less than two hours it is possible to reach Rome, in less than 30 minutes Pescara, a lively sea town with golden shores of the Adriatic sea and the international airport, in 45 minutes the ski lifts of Majella are reached, where it is possible to ski while looking at the sea.