Ligurian des res
For anyone seeking a dream life in Italy, homes don’t come much dreamier than this villa on Liguria’s Sestri Levante peninsula, which is for sale (POA) with Lionard Luxury Real Estate. The property stands in the very place that inspired Hans Christian Andersen’s famous tale – the Danish writer stayed in the area in 1833 and wrote his story soon after, thought to be influenced by the local legend of the forbidden love between the merman Tigullio and the mermaid Segesta. The villa itself is a lovely example of rationalist architecture, designed in the 1930s by Luigi Carlo Daneri. It sits on the tip of a cliff, overlooking the ocean (with private access to the sea) and surrounded by 2.3 hectares of parkland. It has been recognised as a National Monument of Modern Architecture by the Italian Ministry of Culture and was grandly described by architect Gio Ponti as: “a dwelling, intended not as an accommodation, but as a theatre for human actions of life and thought,
