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£3,095,640
€3,600,000
Lionard Luxury Real Estate spa, Lionard Spa - Firenze
PROPERTY TYPE

House

BEDROOMS

9

BATHROOMS

7

SIZE

15,069 sq ft

1,400 sq m

Description

In the charming Berry region, in the Indre-et-Loire department, this fascinating 12th-century Gothic castle is for sale. Built over an ancient 10th-century Benedictine monastery, it develops over 4 levels for a total of 2,900 sqm, immersed in 2.5 hectares of wonderful private parkland. This imposing fortress, featuring defensive walls and three corner towers, offers a unique opportunity to own a piece of history. Napoleon reportedly stayed here upon his return from Waterloo, having the royal engineers work tirelessly for days to bury a treasure in the garden that was never recovered. This is also where George Sand, the French writer and playwright famous for her novels and short stories, set her well-known novel *The Master Bell-Ringers*. This magnificent 12th-century castle, erected during the Hundred Years' War, consists of two separate structures: the main fortress and an annex built on the southern wing of the walls, totaling 2,900 sqm. Originally a massive structure with four corner towers, the fortress was later modified in the 19th century when the northern tower was demolished, a large terrace was created on the southern side, and windows were added to every wall. The property offers a total of 9 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, and 14 living areas including salons, studies, and sitting rooms, resulting in an elegant and clever layout of the spaces.

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About Lionard Luxury Real Estate spa, Lionard Spa - Firenze

Via Tornabuoni n 1 50123 Firenze

Working within the national and international property market, Lionard Luxury Real Estate was created solely to specialise in the Italian luxury real estate segment. The company has created important partnerships, professional synergies and relationships focused on identifying Clients and Investors coming from consolidated economies and emerging markets. From this premise, the first steps towards the development of an operational model were taken which lead us to accept every year properties with specific historic and artistic characteristics, architectonic heritage or geographical significance.

The careful selection of properties carried out by professionals at Lionard Luxury Real Estate is finalised towards the most proficient placement of properties within the selected target audience. For this reason the company invests heavily in professional photo shoots, marketing campaigns and integrated communication strategies in order to optimise requests and proposals from the reference market. The decision to internalise within the company all such initiatives and professional resources usually managed by outsourcing allows us to guarantee a series of services of additional value. These include geo-marketing studies, environmental and historic research, analysis of the potential or risk related to properties, studies related to structural development of real estate and of short term profitability of investments. The practicality of Lionard Luxury Real Estate is based on unconditional principles and objectivity which offers our Clients peace of mind and absolute certainty. Professionalism and efficiency are the basis of the work ethic of both directors and staff at Lionard, developed in total transparency and integrated into Client management while guaranteeing absolute privacy and discretion.

With the aim of opening new commercial relationships and consolidating a network of relationships with clients and foreign partners, Lionard Luxury Real Estate is making a series of public engagements during which our representatives will be present in some of the main european and international financial hubs. The meetings will take place exclusively by appointment, and we invite anybody interested in participating to contact us with reasonable advance warning at our email address info@lionard.com or by calling our offices to request an appointment.

Lionard is also frequently present in some of the main european cities including Montecarlo, Zurich, Geneva, Paris and London, cities for which it is possible to request an appointment independently of our tour program.

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