Villa À Vendre À Forte Dei Marmi (Lu) À Buono Composto Pour 5 Pièces

Detached villa, 130 sqm, with a 500 sqm garden in central Forte dei Marmi

The villa stands on a corner plot. On the wider road, a quiet cul-de-sac, a wrought-iron gate leads past the hedge to the raised porch along the front of the house. The garden runs round every side.

The detached villa is in the centre of Forte dei Marmi, a small coastal town in Versilia, northern Tuscany, about forty minutes by car from Pisa airport and an hour and a quarter from Florence. The pedestrian centre is 400 metres away, a five-minute walk; the sea is 800 metres away, about ten minutes on foot. The house measures 130 sqm (1,400 sq ft) over two floors, with four double bedrooms and three bathrooms, on a 500 sqm (5,382 sq ft) plot.

The plot is enclosed by tall hedges, with lawn on every side, stone-slab paths and a corner for a parasol and sun loungers. The porch stands on a base of exposed brick, with a grey stoneware floor and a retractable awning; both the front door and the sitting room open onto it. On the side of the house, next to the kitchen, two driveway gates open from the second road, purely residential, into a stone-paved courtyard: one serves the garage, the other the garden and an uncovered parking space.

From the entrance hall a corridor runs through the ground floor. Immediately to the right are two double bedrooms and a bathroom with a glass-screened shower. Straight ahead is the sitting and dining room, opening onto the porch through double French doors. At the far end, a small lobby leads to a third double bedroom and a second bathroom, also with a glass-screened shower, kept separate from the kitchen.

The eat-in kitchen has white panelled units, an induction hob and bevelled white wall tiles. Its door, under a scalloped awning, steps down into the courtyard by the driveway gates, so the shopping goes straight from the car to the kitchen. Floors are marble in the hall, corridor, sitting room and one bedroom, light wood-effect tiles in the kitchen, and terracotta-toned hexagonal tiles in the other bedrooms.

Just before the kitchen, a staircase leads to the first floor: a bathroom and a fourth double bedroom with a timber-lined pitched ceiling and a French door onto the terrace. The terrace, above the garage, is sheltered by the roof overhang, with a wrought-iron railing and a view towards the Apuan Alps, the mountains where Michelangelo chose his marble.

Windows have wrought-iron grilles and roller shutters. Air conditioning is independent. The house is in good order, energy class C, sole ownership.

Current planning allows an extension to 160 sqm (1,722 sq ft) — a margin that is not easy to find on plots of this size in the centre.

Everything in town is walkable: the Wednesday market, the shops, the railway station. The beach is a few minutes by bicycle, and neither of the two roads around the house carries through traffic.

Viewings by private appointment. Full documentation available on request. Handled by Splendida Real Estate.