This estate, set in Valdera (Pisa Province) has a surface of 315 Hectares of woodland, 5 ha pasture land, 5 ha vineyard and fruit trees, 50 ha of cultivated (sowable) land, in great position, without any kind of pollution, enjoying lovely landscapes. Surrounded by this paradise and included in the sale, the ruin of a medieval castle (only few stones left), the ruin of a convent, a farmhouse, partly ready for occupation and 5 country houses for restoration, for a total surface of 2.500 sqm. There is also a black marble quorry, now closed, that cabn be reopened. Pisa, Lucca, Volterra, San Gimignano, the coast of Livorno are easily reachable in about 40 minutes by car. The property is very remote and isolated, and the internal country road can be accessed only with a 4×4.
The feeling that warns each of us is to come to a magical place where time has stopped, with the ruins of a fortress at the center of a large wild and primitive area but able to give back intact all legendary charm of the Middle Ages. In a turreted castle, overlooking the south coast of the Etruscans, the ancient Volterra, and the fertile valley of Casciana, which gradually opens with extraordinary landscapes, lived the famous Countess Matilde di Canossa, daughter of the Marquis of Tuscany Boniface II, and the Countess Beatrice di Lorena. The Great Countess, as she was called after a large donation to the Church of Rome, became famous during the “investiture controversy”, in which she sided with Pope Gregory VII.
