Capannori, Tuscany, Address available on request

This splendid eighteenth-century villa with its current configuration, with the symmetrical facade, the side terraces and the forepart on the back, dates back to 1836 while maintaining all the elements of neoclassicism typical of the period and of the architects Giovanni Lazarini and Lorenzo Nottolini working in Lucca and authors of important works in Lucca, such as the works on the Villa Reale di Marlia for Elisa Baciocchi, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Teatro del Giglio for Maria Luisa di Borbone, Porta Elisa in the walls of Lucca, the Specola, the aqueduct and urban planning works in Piazza Anfiteatro.

Currently the villa is surrounded by a lock of about 3000 square meters, immersed in the greenery of palm trees to the south and pine and holm oaks to the north.
It is spread over three floors: ground floor, noble floor and second floor, for a total of about 1400 square meters.
In the main facade, facing south, the geometric score of the floors is highlighted, enhanced by the diversified treatment of the surfaces, with a fake ashlar on the ground floor of a different color from the upper floors treated with smooth plaster, and from the string courses. The central part of the facade is highlighted by four pilasters with architrave and the central balcony with cast iron railing. The symmetrical setting is further underlined by the two side terraces. The second floor is enriched with brick draperies which were then painted on site according to the construction techniques of the time. Inside the villa, a columned entrance of considerable artistic value leads to various service rooms (kitchen, tavern, cellar), and an apartment entirely frescoed and on the main floor, through a large staircase in Matraia stone with a railing. Era worked in cast iron, has a large living room with adjoining study, living room, various bedrooms and bathrooms, two side terraces decorated with terracotta statues. Many of the rooms are still frescoed today. The second floor attic with beams, wooden rafters and terracotta bricks, usually inhabited by the servants, is being renovated. The terracotta or stone floors are original from the period as well as the doors and windows, which have recently been renovated, have been fitted with shutters. Of particular importance is the accentuation, both on the first floor and on the main floor, of the alignment of the doors with the effect of the so-called "telescope" which highlights a "parade" of communicating rooms, also typical of Lucca architecture. Of the period. The interiors are furnished with antiques, some of particular value. An old stable and a wagon shed for a total of about one hundred and eighty square meters belong to the villa.