New Seafront Apartment with Sea-View Garden

Along the Strada Costiera gardens tend to climb. Retaining walls, terraces, steps — the slope is the rule here. At number 172, just short of Grignano, two hundred square metres of garden lie flat instead, facing open water with nothing in between.

The villa is newly built and holds three self-contained units, each with its own entrance and its own outdoor space. This is the middle one: about 116 sqm inside, twenty-five of terrace, and the garden. The garden is the reason to stop here. Wide enough for an above-ground pool of real proportions, level enough to lay a table anywhere on it. The sea is a walk away. The apartment also carries a small state maritime concession on the waterfront — room for a pair of sun loungers, no more: on this stretch of coast, not something that comes up when you need it.

Inside, the living area runs the whole width facing the garden, 8.70 m on its long side, with an open kitchen and two full-height sliding doors that open straight onto the grass. The main bedroom measures 6.51 × 3.02 and has its own bathroom; the second, 3.02 × 4.33, uses the other one and has a lobby in front of it that works as a dressing room. There is a proper storage room too — the thing new-build apartments almost always forget.

The finishes are the developer's, laid and never used: oak floors, large-format porcelain in both bathrooms, walk-in showers flush with the floor, independent heating, ducted air conditioning. The building has a green roof.

A parking space is available separately, at €50,000.

Miramare castle is a little further along the same road; central Trieste about ten minutes by car, Sistiana the other way.