13 bedrooms villa, 2286 m²

Mombello Monferrato, Alessandria (province)

For sale in the heart of the lower Monferrato, a splendid historic residence recognized by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities consisting of manor house, praetorian house and caretaker's house, as well as terraces, garden and a small plot of land. Access from driveway leading to private gate overlooked by the praetorium and the main residence.
The origins of the latter date back to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, then expanded in 1462. The common access leads to an Italian garden that rests on a large terrace supported by ancient retaining walls, designed in the first half of the twentieth century from Turin, Giuseppe Roda, one of the most famous landscape designers in the Piedmontese and Lombard areas of the period. The house has been restored in every detail, from the coffered ceilings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to the frescoes, the cathedral windows, the original period floors. Currently there are 5 bedrooms, each with its own private bathroom and fireplace (14 fireplaces in all), huge kitchen, three dining rooms, billiard room, laundry room, arches, fine details, such as the terrace with loggia, icebox, alarm with sensors and vault.
Everything is connected to the caretaker's house by a security door, which is on three levels for a total of 210 square meters.
Across the courtyard and the lemon grove, on which there is also a well of spring water, we find an immense building of over 600 square meters: the praetorium
Structurally perfect, in brick, the interior is unfinished, except for the magnificent Infernot that run along the basement. 4 floors above ground instead consisting of large living rooms with different accesses, internal staircase and lift arrangement. Exposed wooden beams and exposed bricks. The property is completed by 10663 sq.m of land in the surroundings with wood and a part of the vineyard.
A fairy-tale residence in an incredible setting