Mansion for Sale in Rignano Garganico, Puglia, Italy

Romantic Old Mansion(Xixcen)in Gargano Nat Park Few Km Ocean

Enchanting, romantic old mansion (XIX cen), facing into the sunset of Puglia Plain from Rignano Garganico area, the littlest, “untouched” town of Gargano National Park, few km far from the ocean.

The main building is on three stories (+ attic), totally about 350 square meters. 1st: the storehouse, with an independent entrance, with a fireplace; 2nd /3rd: passing through a lovely garden with two seculars palm trees, there is the main entrance of the house (three different French doors); at the first level of it, 6 rooms (the mains three are decorated with fresco), including a little bathroom, a little kitchen and a fireplace; at the second level, 4 bedrooms (each of them decorated with frescos) and a little bathroom; from the second level of the house you can reach the attic (same surface of each level). Close the house there is a big building (same style of the house, about 150 s.m., higher level about 6 meters), with and independent entrance and a double collapsed roof; from this building there is the entrance to a wonderful underground area: 4 different rooms dug in the rock and/or natural caves, totally about 200 s.m., three of them with its air/light passage through the rock ceiling: this is an enchanting atmosphere place!
With the house/building the sale offer includes also about 3000 s.m. garden/land and precisely: the garden with the two palms in the front of the house; a lovely secret garden surrounded by a stone wall (in the same style of the house), with different trees (oranges, pomegranates, figs, prickly pears,..), connected with the main house (the back of it) through a French door and to the underground area through a door (today closed by a wall); the rest of the land (with a great pine tree too) embraces the rest of the buildings.
The property is perfectly connected to a public road (50 meters from it). 100 meters far from the property, there is a running restaurant/agriturismo. At the moment there is not electricity (it needs few days to connect to!) and no water (all the neighbours, including restaurants work with wells) in the house.
All the house is to renovate (the main house is structurally almost perfect!) with a huge potential (3-5 different flats + main house, or…). There is already a running renovation project for all the property (but you can change it or a part of it..!).

Walking, sitting, watching, listening, breathing every micro part of the house/property, gives you a strong, deep emotion. It is a wonderful mix, in a perfect harmony, of Naturea and Architecture, lived in a past times “slow life” atmosphere. Strong Character is inside and around the property!

In the middle of Italy, Rignano Garganico (590 m. on the sea level, 2300 inhabitants, 20 km from the sea) is one (the littlest town in Gargano area) of the Pearls of Gargano that is an hilly promontory surrounded for 3/4 by Adriatico sea. Rignano Garganico (10 km far from the property) is very famous for the Palaeolithic site, Paglicci Cave (Grotta Paglicci) of huge interest on European staircase situated between the town and the house for sale (about 5 km from both) and for its wonderful position dominating all the Puglia Region and Manfredonia harbour (RIgnano town is called: Gargano’s balcony). Gargano's National Park safeguards a very rich, natural, cultural, religious and artistic inheritance. Gargano's nature is strong, wild and very varied: terraced fields, olive plantations, citrus orchards, rows of Aleppo, pines, the impenetrable cloak of Umbra forest, the lakes of Lesina and Varano inhabited by ducks, herons and cormorants, the steep white coast displays alternating large sandy shores, small bays, deep inlets, caves and marine cliffs. Furthermore Gargano is rich in its history and a lot of museums are presents to bear witness in the some way there are a lot of living museums: the little towns of Gargano that speaks about a very typical architecture, customs, gastronomy. Rignano Garganico is 4 hours from Rome and 3 hours from Naples and Amalfi, Sorrento; 1,5 hours from Pescara and Bari airports (Ryanair flights from London-Stanstead); 15 minutes from ovanni Rotondo (PADRE PIO's town, during the last years the first religious area/town as number of visitors in all Europe!). Foggia, the main town of the area (160000 inhabitants) is 20 minutes far from.