After decades at the centre of one of Europe’s most glamorous social worlds, Beatriz Patiño commissioned a private residence of her own beside the famous Patiño Palace in Cascais, near Lisbon.

“What separates Staples Point is that its greatest assets can’t be recreated,” says listing agent Sam Michaud of Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty. “The land, the frontage, the five lighthouse views, the privacy and the proximity to Portland cannot be replicated.”

Before the Statue of Liberty stood over New York Harbor, she rose above the rooftops of Paris. A former artist’s atelier is for sale on the street where the Statue of Liberty was built and assembled at the workshops of Gaget, Gauthier et Cie.

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.

A 1774 Hudson Valley farmhouse is for sale with the historic barn where Joan Osofsky founded Hammertown, the much-loved furnishings and antiques business that helped shape the region’s relaxed country style.

Commissioned by Francesco Burlamacchi, who was executed for plotting to unite Tuscany’s independent republics against Medici rule, the villa later became home to antifascist jurist Paolo Rossi, who helped draft the constitution of modern Italy.

A seven-story Beaux-Arts mansion — once home to a Russian prince and later restored from a shell — has come to market at $29.75 million.

Set in Andlau, a historic wine village on the Alsace Wine Route in eastern France, the house was updated in the 1970s around a sculptural fireplace by Jacques Couëlle, a distinctive figure in postwar French architecture known for his organic, sculptural houses.

Minutes from the historic centre of Cortona, a cypress-lined drive leads not to the intimate farmhouse fantasy popularised by Under the Tuscan Sun, but to a vast aristocratic residence shaped by one prominent family over several centuries.

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.