VILLA ELENA
Trieste District – VILLA ELENA
Set within the park of Villa Ada, we are pleased to offer a unique property both for its historical value and for its location, we are talking about the prestigious Villa Elena, once called Vigna Saliceti. Villa Elena consists of a central body on two levels overlooking Via Salaria and the private park; there is a depandance, a large terrace on the upper floor, a garage with driveway access from Via Salaria and an additional agricultural land of about 2000 square meters with greenhouse. The property is currently divided as follows: the pedestrian entrance on Via Salaria is reserved for two guest apartments and service staff accommodation, while the main entrance from the garden leads us to the master apartment on the first floor, consisting of kitchen and reception room which leads to a large terrace, dining room, There are 3 bathrooms and 2 bedrooms.
HISTORY
The complex dates back to the mid-1500s, years in which the current Villa Ada was divided into various agricultural estates, each with its noble Casino, in particular the Vigna Saliceti, had a 2-storey noble casino with adjoining park.
After 1750 along the axis of the Via Salaria there were three properties in succession: Saliceti vineyard, Calzamiglia vineyard and Capocaccia vineyard. All three of these vineyards were purchased in the second half of the eighteenth century by Prince Luigi Pallavicini who, since 1785, started substantial recovery works on the pre-existing buildings, with the obvious aim of standardizing and aggregating the original nuclei. This is how Villa Pallavicini was born. For a decade there is no news about the works. We are in the period of Napoleonic occupation that does not allow the Roman nobility to deal with expensive factories or places of leisure and the Villa, although just settled, is heading towards decadence. In 1804 Luigi Pallavicini leased it to Monsignor Stanislao Sanseverino, with an agreement for a subsequent purchase, which was unsuccessful. In 1826 Prince Luigi published a notice of sale, evidently also unsuccessful, as at his death in 1835, the Villa was still listed among his possessions. In the Census Plan of 1839, however, much of the Pallavicini estate already appears as the property of the Potenziani, a powerful family of Rieti origin. Ludovico Potenziani, born in 1783, had married in Rome Angelica Saliceti, daughter of the statesman Antonio Cristoforo and descendant of the ancient owners of the Saliceti vineyard, one of the properties purchased by the Pallavicini, and it was she who pushed her husband to buy the villa outside Porta Salaria. In 1872 Giovanni Antonio Gabrinski Potenziani, immediately after his marriage to Princess Maria Spada Veralli, sold Villa Pallavicini (i.e. the body of the three villas, Saliceti vineyard, Calzamiglia vineyard and Capocaccia vineyard) to King Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoy, who carried out extensive renovation works.