4 bedrooms palace, 291 m²

Settefrati, Frosinone (province)

Palazzo Settefrati is an important historic building located in the centre of Settefrati just 20 meters from the main square of the town.  Settefrati is a charming little medieval hilltop town in the beautiful Val di Comino area southeast of Rome and has starred in the Borghi d'Italia TV series as one of Italy's most beautiful small towns.  It is less than a 2 hour drive to Rome and Rome's main international airport.

Palazzo Settefrati benefits from being the entire undivided building from the cellars to the roof (quite unusual in rural Italy where many such buildings have been sub-divided into apartments over the years). Although only a few steps from the central piazza, Palazzo Settefrati also has the unusual feature of opening from the rear of the palazzo into a large (1,293 sq.mt.) private garden, which can also be entered by car from the main road.  

The palazzo is on three levels. On the ground floor there are the ancient wooden double entrance doors allowing access to both the garden and the above-ground cellars as well as to the elegant marble staircase leading to the upper two floors.

On the present room configuration, the middle floor consists of a large living room, a kitchen with a fireplace, two bedrooms, a hallway, another living room and finally a bathroom.

Going up the beautiful internal marble staircase you reach the upper floor where an elegantly decorated living room, undoubtedly the most important room of the building, together with three bedrooms, another bathroom and a large hallway complete the presently configured accommodation.

The splendid gated garden measuring 1,293 square meters, enjoys a vista over the entire valley.   Presently a little overgrown, it will be possible for the purchaser of this exceptional property to create a dining terrace and BBQ area (perhaps with a pizza oven) set in attractive landscaped grounds with trees and flowering bushes, a swimming pool (subject to the usual building permissions) and a private secure parking area with a convenient entrance gate from the street.

The magnificent stone vaulted cellars have many fine original features, including an old wood-burning bread oven, an open fireplace and an old range oven.  It would be possible to move the main kitchen to this level, retaining the old features (there is plenty of space to create a large modern kitchen with modern fittings as well) - this configuration would also allow direct access from the kitchen into the garden, thus enabling easy al fresco dining.  There would remain plenty of cellar space for storage, a hobby room, etc..

The property has excellent road access and Rome is only 120 kms (75 miles) away.  Rome's second airport, Ciampino, is even nearer and can be reached in only 90 minutes.  The palazzo's location in the centre of town means that the village shops and bar/cafè are only a moment's s walk.

Palazzo Settefrati is undoubtedly one of the most interesting real estate proposals in the entire Val di Comino area, given the beauty of this historic building and its somewhat unique feature of combining its location in the town centre  with a large garden and panoramic views.


VIA ROMANA Srls and CASE & CASALI REAL ESTATE AGENCY

Via Romana Srls is an Italian-incorporated company owned by a British/Australian Chartered Accountant and her photographer daughter, and offers a package of services to facilitate all aspects of the purchase and restoration of Italian property by overseas clients. The Via Romana team works in collaboration with various fully-licensed Italian real estate agencies including Case & Casali Real Estate Agency represented by Sig. Ciro Tomei. Sig. Tomei has been enrolled in the register of real estate agents at the Chamber of Commerce in Frosinone, Lazio since 2007 and has much experience in the international marketing of Italian real estate