The Villa Aurora, a jewel of architecture and art in the Italian capital, is up for sale for half a billion euros. Its strong point is not its grandeur or its luxury, but the fact that it houses the only known mural by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio.
It is one of the most beautiful residences on Via Veneto, one of the most admirable streets in Rome. Built at the end of the 16th century as a hunting lodge and sold to the city of Rome in the 19th century, Villa Aurora is all that remains of the imposing ancestral residence. It is a huge building of 2800 square metres, with a garden, a roof terrace, paths, three garages and nine bathrooms. Its base selling price? 471 million euros, or $545.8 million, making it one of the most expensive in the world. The auction is scheduled to take place on 18 January 2022.
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