
Historic villa, Strada Costiera
Strada Costiera, Coastline, Trieste
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Property features
- Type
- Villa
- Surface
- 205 m²
- Rooms
- 4
- Bedrooms
- 3
- Bathrooms
- 2
- Floor
- On multiple levels
- Energy class
- C · 75.68 kWh/m² year
Description
Halfway along the Strada Costiera, in a panoramic spot with an open view over the Gulf of Trieste, stands a detached villa of roughly 200 sqm. It was built in 1914 as the Pensione Vegetariana Santa Croce, on the initiative of Robert Lutz — a small piece of local history, later turned into a private home without losing its original character. A full renovation followed about ten years ago.
The layout runs over several levels. The ground floor takes the entrance, kitchen and laundry. Below, a generous room currently used for storage lends itself to a study, home office or guest bedroom. The upper floor is the sleeping area — a bathroom, the master bedroom and two more rooms.
A large garden with fruit trees wraps the house. Two flights of stairs currently link it to the road; the sale, however, includes an already-approved project for two parking spaces at street level and a lift, which will do away with the first 96 steps.
The sea sits just across the road: a public stairway of around 220 steps drops to a swimmable stretch of coast in about 3 minutes. Behind the property, footpaths along the Karst ridge open up for walks.
Energy class C (75.68 kWh/m² per year). The sale covers the main villa only; the adjacent timber annex, with its own separate entrance, is available on separate terms.
Indicative taxes & costs
Purchase costs (one-off)
- TriesteVillas fee
- ≈ €38,000+ VAT
Annual running costs
- Property tax · ILIA
- Exempt (main home)
- Waste tax · TARI
- Occupants2≈ €319/yr
Annual costs are indicative estimates calculated with a formula from the cadastral data and the municipal rates, and do not replace an official check.
Floor plans
3D tour
Amenities
- Period property
- Garden
- Detached
- Steps to the beach
- Waterfront
- Near the sea
- Quiet area
- Terrace
- Sea view
- Seafront
- As new
- On the hill
- Partly furnished
Location
Approximate location within the area. The exact address is shared on request.
How we used AI in these photos and in the video
All 61 photos retouched with AI: 11 edited and 11 simulations, marked on the photo; the rest in light and colour only. The viewing remains the only reference.
How we edited them
The 61 images in this listing start from photographs and drone shots of the villa, the garden and the shore. All 61 went through generative image models used via the Higgsfield platform: 30 with Google's Nano Banana, 31 with ByteDance's Seedream. 39 were retouched for light and colour only: the warm sunset light is simulated, and the drone shots are cropped. In 11, objects were only removed: a saddle, a chest of drawers, a holdall and a bin, two vacuum cleaners, a jacket, a decoration on the front door, the materials stacked in a room of the wooden cabin, leaves from the steps, cables and a pole, the photographer's finger and, in two photos, the clouds. 11 are simulations and carry the label «AI · simulated»: in seven the sky was replaced by a sunset sky (in one an olive tree was also added), in one the model invented a stone staircase in front of the wooden cabin, in one the view through the cabin door, in one it turned a ground-level shot into an elevated view, and in one drone shot it rebuilt the edge of the image.
Where something was removed, what it hid was not photographed: the model rebuilt it. In one photo (the wall with the wooden boat) the model erased the flaking plaster below the windows, which is there in reality, and the caption says so. Otherwise walls, finishes, furniture, garden and views are as photographed.
The unmodified original photographs are available on request; a viewing remains the only reference for the actual condition of the property.
The video
Video edited from photographs of this property modified with AI, some of which are simulations with added elements (the details of each photo are in the gallery captions). The voice-over is AI-generated.
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