
Via San Vito Penthouse
SAN VITO, City Centre, Trieste
Property features
- Type
- Penthouse / Attic
- Surface
- 150 m²
- Rooms
- 4
- Bedrooms
- 2
- Bathrooms
- 2
- Floor
- 7
- Energy class
- A1 · 78.05 kWh/m² year
Description
A penthouse on Via San Vito, minutes from the seafront
On the top floor of a lift-served building, a few minutes' walk from Trieste's seafront and the city centre, this penthouse occupies the seventh floor and, above it, the entire roof of the building.
The roof terrace: 186 sqm for exclusive use
This is what sets the property apart from anything else in the city. One hundred and eighty-six square metres of roof terrace for exclusive use, now laid in timber decking, with a bioclimatic pergola with adjustable louvres, perimeter planters served by an irrigation system, and metal balustrades.
It is reached by a private spiral staircase rising from the seventh-floor terrace. A second reserved access from the communal stairwell also exists, so the roof can be reached either from inside the apartment or from the landing. From up there the view opens on every side: the gulf and the port on one, the Karst plateau and the hills on another, the roofs of San Vito and the hill of San Giusto on the rest. It is not a figure of speech: it is a complete horizon.
The seventh-floor terrace
The living area opens in its entirety onto a generous, genuinely usable terrace. It currently holds a table for six; its dimensions comfortably take one for twelve. In total the outdoor surfaces on the apartment's own floor measure almost 32 sqm.
Inside: a complete refurbishment
Some 82 sqm of internal floor area, arranged as living room, dining room, open kitchen with island, two bedrooms and two bathrooms. The master bedroom has its own en-suite; the second bedroom, currently used as a study, opens onto a second small terrace.
What you notice immediately is the bespoke joinery: walnut panelling and integrated wardrobes, a curved timber volume separating the sleeping area, full-height cupboards, timber ceilings in the hallways. Every centimetre is drawn and used, with the logic of a yacht interior: this is cabinetmaking, not bought furniture.
Floors are Hungarian-point oak in the living area and bedrooms, large-format porcelain in the kitchen and bathrooms. Walls are lime-plastered.
The kitchen
Island with a marble worktop, induction hob with a downdraft extractor integrated into the worktop (Bora system), undermount stainless steel sink with a pull-down tap, marble splashback, flush-fitted lacquered tall units, a lit niche and two wine cabinets. Top-tier appliances.
The two bathrooms
Both with flush walk-in showers, wall-hung sanitaryware, stone tops on slatted timber vanities, backlit mirrors — one round, one full-width — and electric towel radiators that can be switched on to supplement the main heating.
Systems and efficiency
Underfloor heating powered by a heat pump, with provision for a 6.4 kW photovoltaic system and its storage battery. The unit was insulated during the works: insulating screed and vapour barrier beneath the radiant floor, wall insulation, suspended ceilings. Cooling by two fan coil units, one serving the living area and one serving the two bedrooms through a split system, plus mechanical ventilation with heat recovery. Minimal-profile timber external windows; designer light fittings, all dimmable; motorised shutters, external awning.
Energy rating A1 · EP gl,nren 78.05 kWh/m² per year · emissions 17.58 kg CO₂/m² per year. Certificate no. 3200600882425 issued 24/09/2025, valid to 24/09/2035.
Ancillary spaces and options
A cellar is included, on the basement floor. One or more garages or parking spaces in a nearby facility can be purchased separately on request; some spaces allow an electric vehicle charging point to be installed.
Why it is on the market
The apartment was refurbished by its owner to live in, to a specification chosen without compromise. Less than a year after moving in, work took him elsewhere. What is for sale is therefore a finished, complete home that has barely been lived in — in practice, a first occupancy.
Taxation: a private sale
This is a sale between private individuals: no VAT. On request to the notary the prezzo-valore mechanism applies, which calculates registration tax on the cadastral value rather than on the price. For the apartment and the cellar this means, on the cadastral data currently available, registration tax in the order of €1,800 as a main residence and €8,600 as a second home, plus fixed duties. The roof terrace is registered in category F/5 and therefore has no cadastral income, so the mechanism does not apply to it: that portion of the tax is quantified at the deed. We provide a precise, up-to-date calculation on request.
The tax relief follows the property
The works generated Italian tax relief on €187,841 of documented expenditure — refurbishment, window and solar-shading ecobonus, systems ecobonus, furniture bonus — set out invoice by invoice in a schedule prepared by the project's technical office. On a sale to a private individual the instalments not yet used transfer to the buyer for the remaining tax periods, unless the deed provides otherwise. The schedule is available on request.
Price: €850,000
Note on the images. These are real photographs of the property as it stands. They have been processed with AI tools for two purposes only: photographic finishing (light, contrast, colour) and the removal of personal effects and building materials temporarily present during the survey of 17 September 2026 — clothing, towels, toiletries, boxes, work equipment, and the bags of soil and irrigation hoses of the landscaping currently under way on the roof terrace. In one roof-terrace image the perimeter planters, at present only partly planted, have been digitally completed with the same species already growing there. Nothing has been altered in the geometry, dimensions, finishes or condition of the property. The 3D tour is complete and unretouched.
Indicative taxes & costs
Purchase costs (one-off)
- First-home taxes
- ≈ €1,838
- TriesteVillas fee
- ≈ €34,000+ VAT
- Indicative turnkey total
- ≈ €893,318
An indicative estimate: we work out the exact figures together, line by line.
Annual running costs
- Property tax · ILIA
- Exempt (main home)
- Waste tax · TARI
- Occupants2≈ €270/yr
Annual costs are indicative AI estimates and do not replace an official check.
Floor plans
3D tour
Amenities
- Elevator
- Penthouse
- Seafront
- Old town
- Luxury
- Attic
- Terrace
- Top floor
Location
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