Contemporary Gulf-View Villa — Vanisella, Muggia

The road up from Muggia to Vanisella climbs in hairpins, then opens out. From there the whole gulf lies below you: the Porto San Rocco marina with its moored boats, the coastline folding away, Trieste on the far shore.

This is the upper unit of a semi-detached house completed in 2023 and never lived in. Genuinely contemporary architecture — clean white volumes, anthracite aluminium frames, full-height glazing — of a kind you rarely find in the province of Trieste.

The entrance level measures 112 sqm and turns around a single living space of 56.60 sqm with open kitchen, between 2.55 and 3.60 metres high, flowing out level onto the sea-facing terrace. That terrace is 106.50 sqm: for much of the year it is the room you use most. On the same floor, a bedroom and two full bathrooms.

A steel-and-glass staircase leads to the loft, under the exposed glulam pitch: 1.70 m high on average, it is designed as a study, with a second room, a bathroom and a store.

In the separate block a few steps from the entrance: a sauna and the 35-metre garage, designed as a gym, plus cellar and plant room.