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Franciacorta Wine Palace

Elegant and prestigious seventeenth-century villa with swimming pool, located on the Milan-Venice axis, between Lake Iseo and Lake Garda, in the heart of the Franciacorta vineyards with its renowned cellars (Ca 'del Bosco, Bellavista etc. .) not far from the suggestive cities of art such as Bergamo, Brescia, Parma, Piacenza, Verona, Mantua, Padua and Venice and from the ski slopes of the Ponte di Legno-Tonale ski area.

Connected via the highway, Milan can be reached in less than an hour.

For art trips you can reach Bergamo and Brescia in about 20 minutes, Verona, Mantua and Parma in about an hour, Padua and Vicenza in an hour and a half, Lake Garda in 30 minutes, Lake Iseo in a quarter of an hour and Lake Como in about an hour and a half, Venice in less than two hours.

For ski enthusiasts, the Ponte di Legno Tonale area, with its 100km of slopes and 28 ski lifts, can be reached in an hour and a half.

The Accommodation

The main facade of the building, facing South towards the large basin of Mount Orfano, opens onto the entrance courtyard. The facade is simple, linear but very airy. It is enhanced by two short stairways in sandstone and morainic pebbles, divided by a low wall in Sarnico stone, which lead into the portico that is raised compared to the surrounding courtyard and garden.

The complex compositional scheme of the building can suggest that the construction is the result of several restorations that took place over the centuries.

The building is characterized by a severity of lines and a simplicity of layout, which give the property a tone of elegant austerity typical of the Lombard patrons of the time. Another aesthetically significant element of the building curtain is the decorative use of the Sarnico gray stone, with that crepuscular distinction so characteristic of the Lake Iseo area’s architecture.

Under the porch of the house there are various rooms, interesting for their vaults and for the presence of massive fireplaces from the 17th century. The interiors still retain intact the architectural structures of the seventeenth century. The wooden structure of the attic is well preserved and protected.

Property Details

The Villa is accessed from a private gate that leads to a large open space, surrounded by flower beds of hydrangeas and roses, in front of the porch of the house with a top view of the vineyard. The private swimming pool (m15x7) is located in the garden at the back of the Villa. The villa is spread over three floors. The premises are elegantly furnished with antiques, bookcases and a piano and equipped with large fireplaces.

On the ground floor, overlooking the porch and the rear garden, there are the large living room, the library, the dining rooms and two sitting rooms / study.
The premises are elegantly furnished with antiques, bookcases and a piano and equipped with large fireplaces.
It is completed by a large kitchen equipped with all dishes, pots, cutlery, glasses and appliances such as dishwashers, toasters, coﬀee machines etc necessary to prepare any meal for all guests of the house. Finally, a laundry room equipped with washing machine, iron and ironing board, and a guest bathroom.

On the first floor of the Villa there is the sleeping area consisting of three double bedrooms and two twin bedded rooms. Among these 5 bedrooms, two are equipped with an adjoining sitting room with an additional sofa bed, reaching a total of 12 beds.
There are 4 bathrooms which are accessed from the corridors.

On the second floor there are another 4 bedrooms (1 single, 1 triple with three single beds, 1 double bedroom, 1 twin bedded room) and two bathrooms, reaching a total of 8 beds.

All bathrooms have bathtubs.

All rooms and bathrooms are complete with linen.

Services included: Change of sheets once a week, change of towels twice a week.

Sleeps: 20
Bedrooms: 9
Bathrooms: 7 (6+1)
Dining: Seating for 20 people in two dining rooms next to each other
Minimum stay: 7 nights

Vineyard and cellars

In addition to the vineyard, there are in the property some historic cellars in which the Milesi family has produced and preserved its Franciacorta brut wine over generations.