Historic manorial villa for sale in Rossano Calabro, Calabria. 1,597 m² main house with chapel, castelletto, caretaker’s house and 10,130 m² park. Excellent restoration and hospitality potential.

Calabria Italy Real Estate – Historic Villa with Park and Chapel for Restoration

In the hills above Rossano Calabro in Calabria, less than twenty minutes from the Ionian Sea and Lido Sant’Angelo, a historic manorial villa with private park is for sale. The estate, which functions as a small rural hamlet, requires renovation and modernisation but offers significant potential as a private residence or for tourist accommodation development. Set within a well-kept 10,130 m² (2.5-acre) park regularly used for weddings and events, the property combines a large main villa with several ancillary buildings, including a chapel, caretaker’s house, warehouse, and a small fortified “castelletto.”

The main villa measures 1,597 m² (17,184 sq ft) across four floors, plus a basement and attic, with up to eight bedrooms and eight bathrooms possible. The basement contains three cellar rooms. The ground floor is accessed through a stone courtyard and a characteristic circular staircase leading to a porch with a cast-iron gate. Inside are a grand entrance hall, living room, kitchen, sitting room, reading room and a bathroom. The first floor has a master bedroom with a private terrace, four additional bedrooms, and a bathroom, with scope to create more en-suite facilities. Many rooms retain decorated wallpaper and original frescoed ceilings that need restoration. The second floor features five rooms, three of which have en-suite bathrooms, and includes space for walk-in closets. Floors are in polished cement grit, ceramic, or terracotta. The attic is partially habitable and reached via a terracotta staircase.

A 69 m² (742 ft²) private chapel stands in the central courtyard, complete with an original marble altar and terracotta floors. Other outbuildings include a 50 m² (538 ft²) warehouse with storage and a guest bathroom, a 49 m² (527 ft²) caretaker’s house with living room, a kitchen, a bedroom, and a bathroom plus an outdoor brick oven, and a 146 m² (1,571 ft²) two-storey castelletto with side towers and a small bridge leading to its upper floor.

This Calabria property offers the opportunity to acquire a large historic home with multiple buildings and landscaped grounds, making it ideal for a tailored restoration project. Its proximity to Rossano Calabro’s services and the beaches of the Ionian coast makes it an ideal location for a prestigious private residence, hospitality venue, or cultural retreat.

• TYPE: Historic villa and hamlet
• CONDITION: Needing renovation
• LOCATION: Open and sunny
• ACCESS: Excellent, paved road
• MUNICIPALITY: Rossano Calabro
• PROVINCE: Cosenza
• REGION: Calabria
• INTERIORS: 1,911 square metres (20,562 square feet)
• TOTAL ROOMS: 27
• BEDROOMS: 11
• BATHROOMS: 11
• ANNEXES: Church, warehouse, caretaker’s house, castelletto
• MAIN FEATURES: Stone and brick walls, cast iron shutters on the ground floor, terrazzo floors, marble door thresholds and window sills, marble staircase, cast iron window grilles, cast iron gate, fireplaces, wooded park
• EXTERIOR: 1.0 hectare (2.4 acres)
• GARDEN: Yes, well maintained
• SWIMMING POOL: No
• ELECTRICITY: Already connected
• WATER SUPPLY: Mains water
• TELEPHONE: Already connected
• ADSL: Yes
• GAS: Natural gas
• ENERGY CERTIFICATE: E (EPgl, nren = 187.59 kWh/m2year)
• HEATING SYSTEM: Radiators + fireplace
• CLOSEST CITIES AND TOWNS Town with services (5km; 10’), Lido Sant’Angelo (12km, 20’) Corigliano Calabro (21km; 30’), Schiavonea (23km; 30’), Francavilla Marittima (47km; 50’), Civita (57,6km; 1h), Altomonte (68km, 1h 5’), Morano Calabro (81km; 1h 10’), Cosenza (88km, 1h 15’), Crotone (98km, 1h 50’), Diamante (126km, 2h)
• CLOSEST AIRPORTS Crotone Pitagora (109km; 1h 55’), Bari K. Wojtyła (237km; 2h 50’), Salerno Costa d’Amalfi (242km, 2h 35’)