5 bedrooms villa, 328 m²

Montese, Modena (province)

MONTESE is a comfortable and beautiful town, it is a town nestled in a set of rolling hills at an altitude of about 800 meters above the sea. From here a comfortable and smooth road starts which connects Montese both to the city of Modena or Bologna, and to the nearby facilities ski resort on Monte Cimone. Along this smooth and comfortable road, immediately below the ancient village of Salto, there is a small group of historic houses called "Ara Vecchia"
Ara Vecchia is easy to find, there is a small road called "Ara Vecchia" that goes uphill from the main road and after a few tens of meters there are several houses, very few houses in reality.
All historic houses, all low only one floor below and one floor above, almost all have exposed stone walls, some common courtyard which acts as a "little square" for children to play and to tell stories of imaginary adventures... .
Here, in the lowest part of the village, there is the house I'm telling you about today. Indeed, in reality the house is here but it is a little different from all the others because it is not strictly part of the village...
The house, or rather the internal courtyard of the house, can be accessed in two ways: either from below by car, from the provincial road, or from above, from the actual village through a door in the surrounding wall... Yes, because this house it has an internal garden, a cloister, triangular in shape delimited by walls and buildings.
As I was telling you, the house is downstairs with an external tree-lined garden that divides it from the house, then above there is the cloister garden and above that there is a long, narrow building that acts as a barchessa, bread oven, trough for washing clothes, cellars and closets.
Fascinating.
The house is completely renovated, upstairs there is a large and beautiful apartment with a first living area and kitchen connected via an intriguing "windowed bridge" to a second living room.
Further on there are two bedrooms with a porticoed terrace and a beautiful bathroom.
Downstairs there is an apartment that Mrs. Maria, the owner, rented for short periods or as a B&B, a cellar, a laundry room and a large room used as a storage room but which was designed to create a garage.
The downstairs area has a flat garden with two olive trees in front of the entrance. The house above has a flat garden completely private and enclosed in its courtyard which is framed by the open portico, the house and on the other side the hedge with the profile of the mountains above and the blue sky above!
I forgot, the two floors are connected by an open staircase covered by the "bridge" that I described at the beginning...
The house is very beautiful, to see and experience!
A few hundred meters from home there is the Forno-Bar di San Martino: here, among the special breads, coffee and delicious desserts, they also make a loaf of bread that I really like!
I forgot, there is a 4G network

The upstairs apartment with loggia is 229 commercial meters.
The apartment is 84 commercial meters.
The IMU for the small apartment is approximately 430EURO per year
ENERGY CLASS: G 824.27 kWh/m3 a