Detached 1914 Villa On The Strada Costiera With Fruit Garden And Gulf Views

Midway along the Strada Costiera, set high with an open outlook, this detached house looks straight out over the Gulf of Trieste. It was built in 1914 as a guesthouse, the Pensione Vegetariana Santa Croce, and later became a private residence that kept its period character. About ten years ago it was renovated throughout.

The house extends over several levels for roughly 200 sq m. At entrance level are the hall, an eat-in kitchen and the laundry. One level down, a sizeable room now used for storage could become a study, a home office or a room for guests. Bedrooms are on the top floor: the principal one, two other rooms and a bathroom. From the garden and the main rooms the view takes in the gulf.

A large garden planted with fruit trees surrounds the house, and there is a terrace. Today the house is reached from the road by two flights of steps. An approved project, part of the sale, allows a lift and two parking spaces to be built beside the road, which would spare anyone the first 96 steps.

The sea lies on the other side of the road: some 220 public steps take you down, in roughly three minutes, to a swimmable part of the shore, and behind the property footpaths follow the ridge of the Karst. Heating is independent and the house is sold furnished.

The sale concerns the main villa only. A timber annex next to it, with a separate entrance, can be purchased on separate terms.

Energy performance certificate (APE): class C, EPgl,nren 75.68 kWh/m² per year.

Note on the use of artificial intelligence in the photographs. All 61 images in this listing were processed with a generative AI image model: 39 for light and colour only, 11 to remove clutter or objects, 11 with elements added or changed by the model (simulations). Where something was removed or added, the part of the scene involved was not photographed as you see it: the model reconstructed it. On the listing page at [hidden information] every photograph in which the model may have changed what you see carries a label. A viewing in person remains the only reliable reference. This portal shows no labels on the images, so here they are by number: photographs no. 2–4, [hidden information] and 60 are simulations: the model added or changed part of what you see (for example furniture, sky, greenery or the view).

About the video: The video is a montage of still images of the property, including images modified with AI as described above, with camera movement added in editing: it is not footage filmed on site. Its voice-over is synthetic.