Price On Request It is difficult to resist the fascination of this wonderful farm. The first historic documents relate to 1370 when the castle was involved in bitter disputes before being destroyed in 1395. Some years later the first reconstruction began, completed in the second half of the XVII century with the addition of the main villa annex.A meeting place for Marianna Baccinetti, wife of Ettore Florenzi, and King Luigi I of Baviera, the farm was the scene of a tender friendship which lasted for more than forty years. The King would journey to Ascagnano every year especially to be with his beloved Marianna.The property is composed of a nucleus of antique structures located on a suggestive plateau allowing it to dominate the whole of the upper Valle del Tevere. The farm, comprising the castle with seventeenth century villa annex, farm houses and farmsteads with land, a working farm business and English pure blood horse breeding facilities, all surrounded by over 560 hectares of land.The zootechnical structures for horse breeding were created at the beginning of the seventies and are composed of various buildings used for services and accommodation, storage and 50 horse boxes. From 1972 up to today over 500 colts and foals were born, of which 90% have raced and 75% have won important victories. Starting with the male Ribercurt who won the second group of the Prix Du Kergolay at Deuville and the first group of the Gran Premio d'Italia and proceeding with the female Claire Valentine who won the 1976 Oaks at Milan, the most prestigious race for three year old females. Elgay joins them as winners, having triumphed at the 1978 Italian Derby for the first group.In the following years Lina Cavalieri, Hitchocl, Holga, Daniela Umbra, Giannino Umbro, Helenio and many others were born winning...