The owners of this magnificent apartment in Genoa don’t even need to go to a museum – the ceilings and walls of most rooms here are painted with real frescoes. The apartment is located in a luxurious 12th-century palazzo in the city center, where everything is steeped in deep history and art. When the owners,…
Italy is such a unique country, because only here you can find such unique homes. The history of this house on Lake Iseo near Verona is about 800 years old, as it was built in the 13th century. Moreover, the original medieval frescoes on massive wooden beams are still preserved on the ceilings – it…
Villa Plinianina is one of the most famous surviving examples of 19th century Italian eclectic architecture to be found on the shores of Lake Como. Its façade mixes Gothic and Renaissance elements, and the colorful details make the house stand out from its neighbors. On the 2nd floor of the villa is a magnificent guest…
From the outside, this pink building in one of the towns in the south of Portugal looks like a toy house. But what the interiors are hiding is no less fascinating: frescoes, lots of patterned mosaics, detailed wooden doors, and a large stone sink. The reconstruction plan assumed the placement of five separate apartments in…
Just 30 minutes from Florence and Siena, in the heart of the Chianti wine region, lies the 12th-century castle, now the Como Castello Del Nero. The nature of Tuscany, with its green hills and slender rows of cypress trees, is beautiful in itself, but this hotel fits into the local landscape just as wonderfully. The…
