Colonial villa with pool in rough shell condition

In Salento there are roads, in town or in the countryside, lined with imposing old villas, and Villa Doria is one of them.

Just outside the centre of Galatone, easily reachable on foot, on the road leading to Galatina, we catch sight of this ancient villa behind a tall iron gate.

The villa, over 200 sqm, surrounded by 14,000 sqm of land, is mainly arranged on the ground floor with spacious rooms: 3 bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, dining room and living room, plus a master bedroom on the first floor with en-suite bathroom and terrace.

While preserving some original details such as certain floors, vaults and the portico, the current owners have restored and remedied the entire structure of the villa with ventilated crawl spaces throughout the ground floor, structural masonry works to create new internal openings and rebuild some vaults, the staircase, construction of the first floor, and excavation and masonry structure for a 3.3 m x 12 m swimming pool.

It therefore remains to complete the windows/doors and interior finishes such as floors, bathrooms and kitchen, for which estimates from a building contractor to complete the work are already available.

Villa Doria has the potential to offer the space and tranquillity of the countryside just a short distance from a growing town like Galatone.