Villa with pool and guest house in Ronchi dei Legionari

A 1994 villa in the centre of Ronchi dei Legionari, closed off from the street by a tall white wall capped with terracotta tiles. Inside the wall: a garden with high hedges, a courtyard, the swimming pool, the main house on three levels plus the attic and, across the pool, a separate guest house joined to the garage by a portico. The municipal auditorium is a minute's walk away, the supermarket two, the primary school six; Trieste airport is five minutes by car.

The main house

You enter through an arched front door in solid wood and an inner door with a stained-glass panel. The ground floor is one large living area: the sitting room with its glazed bay window onto the garden and its fireplace, and the dining area with a four-panel French window onto the portico and the pool. The kitchen, large enough to eat in and fitted with an island, also opens onto the portico. A study and a bathroom complete the floor. Wooden parquet floors, wooden doors and windows.

A wooden staircase rises from the sitting room to the first floor, under a coloured-glass skylight.