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Villa, Scipioni Park, €15mn
What A classically inspired modernist villa designed by architect Marcello Canino, built between 1934 and 1942. While it has been recently modernised, many of the original features, such as panelled ceilings and imposing fireplaces, remain.
Where Located alongside both the Via Latina and Via Appia Antica, just inside the ancient city boundaries of the Aurelian walls. The colosseum is less than a 30-minute walk away.
Why Despite its secluded location — nestled inside Scipioni Park on a 6,500 sq m plot, with a fountain and mature trees — the city centre is within easy walking distance.
Who Lionard
House, Trastevere, €5.5mn
What A four-bedroom, four-bathroom palazzetto — a small palace — in the Trastevere district that dates from the 17th century.
Where A few metres from the River Tiber, and within walking distance of St Peter’s Basilica, Castel Sant’Angelo and Piazza Santa Maria, home to the 12th-century basilica of the same name. From the top floors there are views to the Botanical Garden and the Janiculum hill.
Why The property offers the rare chance to own an entire building — it is listed as cielo-terra, from sky to earth — in Rome’s historic centre. It has an internal lift as well as loggie on two floors that look over the 200 sq m private garden.
Who Italy Sotheby’s International Realty
Apartment, Monti, €895,000
What A duplex penthouse in a former convent on the Oppian Hill, in the lively Monti neighbourhood. It has one bedroom with an en-suite bathroom in the suite attico; an additional bathroom is accessed from the open-plan, 5.7-metre-high living space.
Where Although the Oppian Hill is defined by parks and quiet residential streets, the apartment is a short walk from the Colosseum and, in the opposite direction, Vittorio Emanuele metro station, on line A.
Why The apartment offers a potted history of the city, from the modern interventions — a wrought-iron spiral staircase, resin floors — and the early 20th-century architecture of the convent to the remnants of the fourth-century BC Servian Wall, one of the oldest surviving monuments in Rome, visible at the building’s entrance.
Who Engel & Völkers
Apartment, city centre, €1.88mn
What A recently renovated three-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment on the third floor of a historic building on Via della Scrofa.
Where Between the central neighbourhoods of Sant’Eustachio and Campo Marzio. The historic sites of Piazza Navona, the Pantheon and the Tiber are all under a ten minute walk away, while Rome central station is a 15-minute drive.
Why Updated interiors include automated smart systems, fan-coil air-conditioning, and a Turkish bath. Its location is positioned alongside some of Rome’s most revered ancient landmarks.
Who Christie’s International Real Estate
Apartment, Parioli, €7mn
What A four-bedroom, three-bathroom Italian art deco apartment designed in 1933 by celebrated architect Vittorio Morpurgo. There are two oval salons, a gallery, a study, a dining room and three balconies overlooking a tree-lined park.
Where In the quiet residential Parioli district, which was developed in the 1920s, to the north of the city. The Villa Borghese park, which houses the Galleria Borghese, is a 10-minute walk away; MAXXI, the Zaha Hadid-designed contemporary art museum, is 10 minutes by car.
Why The apartment had not been altered since it was first designed and has recently been restored. In addition to the furniture, carpets and light fittings designed by Morpurgo, it features the original engraved mirrors by Pietro Chiesa and wall paintings by Giulio Rosso and Venturino Ventura. Ivanoe Bonomi, who became prime minister of Italy in 1944, hid in the apartment while leading the National Liberation Committee, the organisation that co-ordinated the Italian resistance during the second world war.
Who Lionard
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