- Photo: Tuscany, Italy
The flat is located in the heart of Vignola, a quiet and historic Italian town in the province of Modena. Spacious, bright and with a belvedere, it dominates the city centre from the top of the third floor. Built in the 1970s, the property fits harmoniously into the urban fabric, embellished by the splendid Villa Comunale park and tree-lined flowerbeds that provide shade and coolness during the warmer months. The flat consists of an entrance to the living room and open kitchen with terrace, a hallway for sleeping, two double bedrooms, and a bathroom. The offer includes a cellar that is also useful for storing bicycles, for example, given the proximity to the bicycle paths. As far as the state of the building is concerned, one of its strong points is certainly the centrality of the building, which makes all services, offices, supermarkets, and access to infrastructure and public transport a breeze, whether on foot or by bicycle, perhaps ...
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Visiting this property I had a dive into the past, in the beautiful bourgeois apartment where my uncles lived in Mantua. Here, however, we are in Modena, one of the economic hearts of Europe, in a building a short distance from the historic centre, in one of the buildings typical of the "good" families of the city. When I read Italo Calvino and imagined middle-class city homes, the image that formed in my mind was exactly that of an apartment like this, with a small room for the maid near the entrance, a beautiful eat-in kitchen where the family gathers in the evening meals, a large bright living room with an armchair in which the landlord reads the newspapers, floors in polished marble alternating with the inevitable parquet. Even my uncles' house had the walls covered with wallpaper, I loved getting lost in those repetitive drawings in which I saw figures of fantastic animals as I went from one bookcase to another breathing in the unm...