Description
Castiglioncello, ns exclusive, villa on the sea in the first villa of about 600 square meters. The house inserted in a park of about 2500 square meters is on two levels. The ground floor opens onto the triple living room with sea view windows, a living area with billiards, the kitchen, the service room and the bathroom. Two large stairs lead to the upper floor where we find the four double bedrooms each with its bathroom and the second living room serving the sleeping area overlooking the sea and the 60 sqm terrace overlooking the sea. The property includes a service apartment of four large rooms and a large garage of 50 square meters. Village of poor fishermen at the extreme edge of Etruria, follows the fate of Volterra. Of this period, of the Etruscan power, remains a testimony in the cinerary urn in alabaster, dating back to the II century BC, found right in the necropolis of Castiglioncello.
Già outpost of the Medici, who here in the seventeenth century built a watchtower on the promontory, is a famous seaside resort since the mid-nineteenth century; moreover, between its sheltered bays and the thick Mediterranean maquis, the pictorial current of the Macchiaioli developed, expressed through the works of Giovanni Fattori, Odoardo Borrani, Silvestro Lega, Telemaco Signorini, Giuseppe Abbati and many others who used to holiday in Castiglioncello, often guests of the patron Diego Martelli, and whose paintings often depict the town and the surrounding hills.
At the end of the nineteenth century was built by the baron Fausto Lazzaro Patrone the Pasquini Castle, whose neo-medieval style then influenced the architecture of the nearby railway station, inaugurated in 1910 together with the railway line Vada-Livorno which improved the route on the Genoa-Rome line. The baron built the castle on the land belonging to Diego Martelli purchased together with all his assets, with the specific intent to create the fulcrum of one of the first seaside resorts of the late nineteenth century. He also created the first "baths" in the form of a real bathing establishment complete with every comfort, pursuing the dream of transforming the small town of Castiglioncello into a famous seaside resort. [4]
The tourist fortune of Castiglioncello began in the second half of the nineteenth century, when impressed by the mildness of the climate and the beauty of the landscape, Diego Martelli, art critic and patron, established his residence there. Here he invited continuously, until the end of the century, almost all the painters, later become famous, of the Macchiaioli group, giving rise to a famous artistic period like the School of Castiglioncello.
Meta long sought after by illustrious figures from the world of art, culture and entertainment is today one of the most renowned tourist resorts, known in Italy and abroad for the beauty of the landscape, for the quality and refinement of the services it offers and for the high-value cultural and association initiatives that it promotes. From the
