The Sicilian mansion from Godfather III is up for sale

2022-01-13T19:16:00-05:00

The opulent Sicilian castle featured in the third installment of The Godfather franchise has just gone on the market. For a cool €6m prospective buyers can expect 22 bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a wine cellar, an artist’s studio, a library, a private chapel and 2.1 acres of parkland.

The fate of the sizable art collection located inside the house remains an important (and much more valuable) question as so far only the in situ works that exist in the house have been confirmed included in the sale. The manse was commissioned as a collector’s de facto private museum by a Baron at the end of the 19th century. The collection reportedly includes lots of Byzantine artifacts and several paintings by the Baron’s grandson Paul, who was a post-War artist of some repute within the country.

The 43,000-square-foot Neo-Gothic residence has 22 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, a library, small chapel, and wine cellar brought together by a central marble staircase. The property includes a two-acre park and is set amongst a small coastal town overlooking the Ionian Sea.

"It is a property that expresses a strong character and enjoys enormous potential, for its history, its location, its architecture and its spaces," the head of Residential Italy Diletta Giorgolo wrote in an email to Travel...

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The Sicilian mansion from Godfather III is up for sale