Fattoria San Lorenzo

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........Evening view over the Niccone Valley...........................................Fattoria San Lorenzo.....................Morning view over the Niccone Valley

Fattoria San Lorenzo is a stunning borgo (self-contained agricultural hamlet) overlooking the Niccone valley in Umbria, Italy. I have been the owner for a number of years, but now, unfortunately, I must sell the place.
I have created this website so that anybody interested in buying this incredible piece of Italy can easily view photos of the borgo and surrounding countryside. It also gives me an opportunity to describe the place accurately and in depth.

Essentially, the borgo consists of the Casa Padronale (the squire or padrone's house), two Case Coloniche (the peasant farmers' houses), a small chapel, numerous stone outbuildings which were used as animal stalls and buildings for drying crops, plus a stone garage which, with a little modification, would comfortably hold four cars, with gardens surrounding the whole estate.

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...................................... Front Door................................Main wing of the Casa Padronale viewed from garage...................... ..Courtyard

Casa Padronale

This, the main house of the borgo, was built around the turn of the 15th/16th century and occupies some 470 square metres of floorspace. It consists of an entrance hall, drawing room (29 sq.mtrs), dining room with huge stone fireplace (27 sq.mtrs), kitchen (13.2 sq.mtrs), seven double bedrooms and three bathrooms. There are plans to convert one bedroom into a bathroom, and a spare room into another bathroom, thus giving six bedrooms and five bathrooms. There is ample dry cellar space beneath the house, which is crying out to be made into a fantastic and very secure wine cellar. It's a somewhat rambling house, having been added to at least twice over the last 500 years, and now it actually adjoins a smaller house, known as the Casa Custode (caretaker's house). Underneath the wing that joins the two houses is a well-equipped laundry, with beautifully pointed stone walls and two stunning stone arches. Indeed the whole estate is packed with mouth-wateringly beautiful architectural features.

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..............Upstairs Bathroom..........................................Palermo Bedroom...........................................Drawing Room..........................................Entrance Hall

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................Roma Bedroom..................................................Kitchen.............................................Music Room.fireplace............................. Outdoor.Dining.terrace

Overlooking the swimming pool is Casa San Donino. This house needs modernisation, but is habitable as is (ie it's not a ruin and the roof's in great shape). The lower floor is currently used as a table-tennis hall. The left-hand part of this building (with a lower roofline) was the cell where St Donino lived. It is the oldest part of the whole borgo and dates back to the 12th century.

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.....Swimming Pool & Sun Terrace .........................Casa San Donino...................................Casa San Donino & Pool ..........................Outbuildings & Courtyard

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...Casa Padronale from Front Gate.................................Garage..............................................Outbuildings from Courtyard...........................Casa Custode Front Door.....

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