Apartment via Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour, 48, Centro, Noto

We offer for sale a Luxury Apartment in the historic center of Noto in Sicily. This apartment on the second floor of one of the most prestigious historic noble Palaces of the 18th century belonged to and is located a few meters from the Cathedral and Via Nicolaci.

The Palace is certainly a jewel of Netina Baroque art where many architectural elements are splendidly displayed in one of the most important streets of the historic center. Among the distinctive features are the large entrance portal, the crenellated pediment supported by six pillars decorated with fine capitals, the balconies with curved wrought iron railing parapets. Also worthy of note is the beautiful central courtyard where carriages and horses once stopped where there are what were once the stables of the Palace and which today are garages or warehouses.

The apartment for sale is the most important of the Palace which belonged to various noble families who succeeded one another over the course of its 320 years and is certainly also the largest

The apartment certainly has many rooms including the reception rooms, the rooms of the pastimes of the time, the room that was once also the library, the bedrooms, the rooms intended for the servants but those that characterize it are only the large and suggestive room which was the ancient hall dedicated to the parties and dances of the time in which the nobles and families of the Sicilian upper middle class gathered, to underline the prestige of this apartment is certainly another room even if external and it is the large hanging garden in which many illustrious people have walked and conversed in different eras including writers such as Luigi Pirandello, important governors and above all King Ferdinand II of Bourbon during the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

In the sumptuous ballroom there are still the original 18th century floor, the stucco decorations, the splendid frescoed vault of inestimable value that represents the Rape of Proserpina, the drapes and still some of the original furnishings.

This elegant Palace is one of the seven most important Noble Palaces in the Historic Center of Noto commissioned by the first owners, the Barons Astuto di Fargione, feudal lords first of the kingdom of the Bourbons of Spain and then of the Habsburgs who reigned for a short period during construction. In the last century the Palace was purchased by the Barons Pupillo and in more recent times also divided.

Walking through the rooms you can breathe in the history and above all you can perceive how the splendor of these historic homes had to be much more exalted, easy to imagine that everything shone with its own light, from the magnificent decorations to the shiny furniture, from the cutlery to the well-polished dishes but also and above all for the many works of great painters and sculptors that once enriched all these environments, works that today are scattered in some of the Sicilian Museums and in the nearby Palazzo Nicolaci.

The Sale of this property includes two warehouse rooms for a total accessory of 210 square meters with independent entrances.

The City of Noto already recognized as the European capital of the eighteenth-century Baroque has rightfully entered the UNESCO World Heritage List and is the most important center of the entire Val di Noto.

This Luxurious apartment located in one of the most important historic buildings in Sicily in the Municipality of Noto deserves to return to its ancient splendor.