With a starting bid of 22,200,000 euro, Sammezzano Castle is up for judicial auction scheduled for October 20, 2015. If I had to attach a sales description, I’d write something like this:
For sale: Eccentric Moorish revival castle with kaleidoscopic 19th-century decorations commissioned by Ferdinand Panciatichi Ximenes. 365 rooms, one for each day of the year. Castle in charming state of disrepair, with need to replace all tubes and wires.
The castle itself is valued at 8.5M euro, while in the bundle is a hotel, under construction (a concrete shell) and numerous outbuildings in various states of disrepair, as well as the large park (1.27M euro) and woods and an area intended for a golf course (2.5M euro).
The castle was a luxury hotel that was closed in the early 1990s and has been open to the public only rarely since then. Grab yourself a bit of history and revive it to make a fabulous hotel in Tuscany. If you prove successful in your bid, please let us at The Florentine know – we want to be your first guests!
