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.

Set above the Côte d’Azur near Valbonne, this 4-bedroom villa offered through Lazazu in one-eighth shares presents a more flexible way to own a fully managed second home in the South of France.

Bourg-en-Bresse is probably not the first place that comes to mind when searching for a château in France—and that is partly what makes this one so interesting.

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.

Built and once owned by a notable Belle Époque architect, this villa sits directly on the Mediterranean at Cap d’Antibes, the wooded peninsula between Cannes and Nice and one of the French Riviera’s most tightly held residential enclaves.