Noto, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy

The Oikos Real Estate offers for sale an old tenement dating from the late 1800s, nestled in the heart of the Iblea countryside which covers an area of around 26 hectares. The environmental context is characterized and enriched by the presence of Mediterranean scrub that extends as far as the eye can see.

DESCRIPTION

The charm of this building has all the flavor of the ancient Sicilian tradition. At its center is a large beam, connecting ring of around 15 rooms adjacent to it, used as stables, warehouses, barns, granaries and an old oil mill. Upstairs, once a manor house, the house comprises a dining room, a kitchen, two bedrooms and two storerooms. Another element that embellishes the whole is the huge terrace overlooking the Mediterranean countryside. The ancient olive trees with their precious round hiblea, a very valuable variety from which the highest quality oil is obtained, enhance the property.
The building, even if it needs renovation works, is still fascinating in its kind, precisely because the old Sicilian farmhouse goes to underline its historic role, which becomes a trace of culture and tradition in the Sicilian territory. The size of the land gives the opportunity to build further, interesting would be the hilly area overlooking the surrounding land thus having a better panoramic view from the soft lines of the hills, where nature is best expressed with its colors, its smells and its tranquility punctuated by the song of birds, and the voice of the wind, incomparable sounds. For these elements and the size of the surrounding land, the property has every opportunity to become a personal residence as well as an accommodation facility and an agricultural activity.