Portrait artist to European royalty and leading cultural figures, Michele Gordigiani reshaped Striano with architect Luigi Del Moro as a house for painting, music and entertaining. Its extraordinary limonaia draws on the same Florentine garden tradition as the famous grotto at the Boboli Gardens.

Built in 1702, this historic villa for sale near Milan sits on 25 acres with formal Italian gardens, a 19th-century English park, and a remarkable hidden Secret Garden.

While Como and Maggiore draw the crowds, Lake Orta remains the quieter insider’s choice—a smaller northern Italian lake favored by those seeking discretion, character and a slower pace.

Five minutes from Gordes, this 19th-century stone farmhouse combines the architecture of a rural Luberon property with a mature garden attributed to Michel Semini, a Provençal landscape designer known for private gardens in the South of France, among them the garden at Yves Saint Laurent co-founder Pierre Bergé’s Saint-Rémy-de-Provence estate.

In the Isar Valley south of Munich, a fully restored 1913 villa set on 17,000 m² (4,20 acres) of private parkland is now offered at €7.9 million, representing one of the most substantial historic residential offerings in the region in recent years.

Just 180 meters from the Mediterranean in Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer, once described by The Times as the “Secret South of France.”

One of the largest properties in Menaggio, with 1,050 feet of private lake frontage, Villa Olivetta is a Victorian outlier among the Italianate and Liberty-style estates that define Lake Como, built in the late 19th century by London-born engineer Herman Mylius.

Capri is one of Italy’s most beautiful islands, known for its cliffs, villas, and enduring glamour— and this villa ticks all the boxes. Set into the cliffside, this pink-hued private villa is just 100 steps from the center of town and the Piazzetta.

Constructed between 1919 and 1921, this Liberty-style villa is a late and well-preserved example of Italian Art Nouveau, located in Verona’s San Zeno district, just steps from Piazza Bra and the Arena. The property overlooks the Adige River—whose bends shape the city’s historic core—and is set within a private garden in the heart of Verona.

This meticulously restored Italian Art Nouveau villa is just 10 minutes from Lake Garda, near Desenzano, a sought-after area known for its mild microclimate, wine estates, and easy access to Milan, Verona, and Brescia.