Property Description

Enjoy Stunning Views from Every Room of this Newly Built, Four-bedroom Seafront Villa outside Palermo

Freshly completed and built to the highest modern standards, Villa Vanessa is a beautiful villa in a prestige location with ample space both outdoors and in. The 280m2 family home comprises four bedrooms and two bathrooms, a kitchen, a huge living room and some lovely hillside garden. Most of all, however, it offers an unbelievably good sea view.

Barely a hundred metres from the water’s edge, with about 50m of elevation and a position on a raised terrace that overlooks all the surrounding rooftops, it gives you an uninterrupted panorama of the Gulf of Palermo in the trendy Mongerbino district of Sicily’s north coast. You’ll find it on the coast road that leads out of the beach town of Aspra and circles the natural park of Monte Catalfano.

With large windows, a covered veranda facing the sea to the west and deep terrace balconies outside each of the upstairs bedrooms, the sea becomes a vital component of the smart modern architecture. With Sicily’s greatest city and the mountains that frame it also in full view, this is a position that presents you the absolute best the island has to offer in one majestic vista. Little wonder that this coastal road is the most popular location for summer villas belonging to wealthy Palermo families.

The Property

The villa is reached by a short driveway which slopes up to the raised terrace where you’ll find the front door. Along the way you’ll pass another flat section that provides off-street parking for two cars.

The long entrance hall carries you directly into the long, warm living room, passing a guest bedroom, bathroom and the kitchen along the way. The eye is drawn first to the twin French windows which flood the room with light and give you a perfect view of the beautiful sunsets over the Gulf outside. Next it will fall on the cosy side of the space leading to a brick fireplace in the far corner. This would make the perfect centrepiece for an inviting lounge area, while there will be more than enough room for a dining table nearer the kitchen. Of course, you will also want one out on that veranda!

This deep, covered space is certain to become the focus of family life in the spring, summer and autumn months. You can even choose to cook al fresco, thanks to the brick-built outdoor kitchen which includes a barbecue grill, sink, and connections for plumbing and electricity.

The downstairs bedroom has a beautiful sea view from the west-facing window and a dual exposition, thanks to the French windows which bring you straight out onto the veranda. The kitchen is spacious and versatile, connecting both to the hallway and the living room.

A marble staircase leads up to the second floor where a large open landing is well lit from two sides. Three large bedrooms open off a long corridor, each with alcoves for built-in wardrobes, and French windows opening out onto three discrete sections of the terrace. Completing the first floor, a family bathroom offers a large shower, and a back door gives you direct access to the upper level of the garden.

Everything, obviously, is brand new. The windows are double-glazed with thermal insulation and external wooden shutters. The doors are in wood, the floors in local terracotta tile and the finishings, like the beautiful fireplace and the columns of the veranda, in exposed brickwork.

The plot is a total of 3,300m2 in size, most of which is sloping woodland filled with pine and oak trees. It wraps completely around the detached villa.

Villa Vanessa is connection to the municipal water and electric grids. Hot water comes from an electric boiler. While the connections have been created to install central heating, neither radiators nor boiler are present, but there will be air conditioning installed. There are no connections for gas, so cylinders would need to be used. Waste water is treated in an Imhof septic pit.

Surroundings

As you’d expect from such a prestigious location, this is a perfectly balanced area in which to buy a house in Sicily. You have nature, culture, village life, city life, great food and great views at your fingertips in all directions.

At the back of your garden is the nature reserve of Monte Catalfano, perfect for a hike and a picnic, and just down the road is the little town of Aspra. Whether you need a quick supermarket shop or a leisurely wander around town, you’ll find everything that keeps you ticking over on a daily basis here. The fish market is a particular highlight, with the day’s catch sold fresh right off the boats every morning. You can get to everywhere you need on foot in fifteen minutes.

The nearest beach is right at the end of your road. The charming Spiaggia di Sarello is not big but offers a great spot to bathe in clear water that stays warm late into October or November. You can find all manner of larger coves and bays around this picturesque headland or along the coast heading east towards Cefalù.

It takes about 20 minutes to drive into Palermo, or just five to drive to the train station at Bagheria and take public transport into town. Italy’s fifth-largest metropolis is also one of its most culturally and historically complex cities, and you could take a day trip here every day for a year without exhausting all the possibilities. The airport can be reached in about 45 minutes.

Potential

All that you need to do after completing the purchase on this beautiful new home is to decorate and furnish it, and move into your new home. If you would like any help with the logistics of that, be sure to ask us about the advantages of our Welcome to Sicily after-sales package, which takes all the hassle and bureaucracy out of relocating to the island.

The work is all to high standards and certified in full compliance with the region’s building regulations.

If you are looking to invest further, you’ll spot that while a swimming pool has not yet been installed, there is plenty of space for one, and of course you could position it to take full advantage of that beautiful scenery. A budget of about €30,000 will get you a practically sized private pool here.

The back door of the villa, up an external flight of stairs in the garden and straight into the upstairs floor, gives you the possibility to create two different flats with independent entrances. This is quite a traditional Sicilian configuration, although of course it would require quite a sizeable budget to plumb in an extra kitchen and redistribute the spaces.