The Palazzo Orsini, a Renaissance palace built onto the top of the still-standing stone and marble shell of the anceint Roman theatre (the Theatre of Marcellus –dating from the 1st Century BC) which resembles a mini Coloseeum, is on the market for €32 million ($42 million).
“Its asking price is thought to make it the most expensive property currently on sale in the Italian capital, and one of the most expensive in Europe.
The 11,000 sq ft property has frescoed staterooms, a ballroom, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a library, a dining room, a terrace, a separate penthouse and cellars” with a garden full of fountains and orange trees – not to mention the mini Colosseum.
The property hasn’t been on the market for a few hundred years and the current owner is “the family of an Anglo-American aristocrat who sheltered escaped Allied prisoners of war during the Second World War.”
via Luxuo, DailyMail