For Sale - Country Home - Restored in Morfasso
CASA AURELIA
Distance From
144 km - 90 miles
127 km - 79 miles
69 km - 43 miles
89 km - 55 miles
126 km - 78 miles
92 km - 57 miles
124 km - 77 miles
98 km - 60 miles
Description
CASA AURELIA
On a breathtaking hilltop position (unique dawns, sunsets and moonlight views over the mountains) surrounded by 1,5 ha (15.000 sq.m) tree-lined and fenced property land including: garden, orchard, vegetable garden, field,
Casa Aurelia is a secluded scenic, relaxing haven of peace.
On the property lies also ANOTHER BUILDING of about 90 sq.m in the rough inside.
Sturdy building made with local natural stone (sasso) and brick, in perfect condition. Very easily SPLITTABLE INTO TWO FLATS, each with independent entrance, ideal for large families or parents/children solution. Spacious and very bright it dates back to the '60s. Recently renovated.
On four floors (each 110 sq.m), spacious, easy staircase aside.
GROUND FLOOR: garage, cellar, table tennis room, laundry room
FIRST FLOOR: large kitchen, living room, spacious bathroom, one double bedroom (20 m), wide corridor, veranda
SECOND FLOOR: three spacious double bedrooms (20 and 25 m) bathroom with tub, square terrace with view over the surrounding valleys and mountains.
ATTIC: divided into two big open spaces: one finely restored, the other rough
***PRICE NEGOTIABLE***
Services
Electricity, Tv, satellite, water, gpl (lpg), telephone.
Heating working with wood or switchable to lpg (there are both: wood-burning stove heating the whole house or lpg boiler for heating plant and hot water).
ALL THE EQUIPMENTS HAVE REGULAR CERTIFICATION ACCORDING TO LAW.
Nearby villages and towns:
Trattorie at bike-ride distance
Morfasso: 3,5 km (shops, post-office, bank, chemistry, medical assistance); bus service
Bettola: 12 km, all amenities; bus service
Castell'Arquato: 20 km; bus service
Fiorenzuola: 20 km, TRAIN station, motorway entrance
Piacenza: 50 km, 50 min. drive, TRAIN, motorway
Parma: 60 min.drive, TRAIN, AIRPORT
Milano: 90 min. drive
Condition
Very good. No restoration required. Recently partially renovated: one of the two bathrooms (both spacious and with window) is new so as the drainpipes (in copper), the electrical equipment and the roof (remade according to the best up-to-date techniques is a ventilated roof for a better thermic insulation, in the inside lined with perlinato pinewood).
Location
On panoramic hilltop position. At 930 m. on sea level, on the ancient via Francigena (in the Middle Ages lead pilgrims from Canterbury to Rome). 20 km from the well known medieval town CASTELL'ARQUATO, in the area of the former Dukedom of Parma and Piacenza (17 of its castles are still visitable) which has been recently twinned to the Region of the Loira Chateaux. Though this region has remained simple and genuine.
On a cross-paths among Morfasso (whose name dates back to the sentence Annibale pronounced arriving in the secluded VAL D'ARDA while crossing the Appenines with his elephants: "More facio" "I'll have a rest here"), VAL CHERO and Bettola (birth town of Cristoforo Colombo) in VAL NURE.
Ideal place for biking, hunting, horsebackriding, relaxing and looking for mushrooms (specially edible boletus) in one of Northern Italy largest wood areas.
Lovers of wild nature, moonlight walks and silence will find it unique.
View at 360° over mountains and valleys, mostly covered with woods. Breathtaking dawns and sunsets.
All this without having to give up the amenities of the nearby villages and the comfort of a modern house.
