Italian property - Palazzo passion for sale

A beautifully restored 17th-century palace that gives you more for your millions,The Ancajani family bought Tenaglie the same year, sold it in 1630 to settle debts and bought it back in 1664 – by which time the interim owner had built the palazzo. The estate stayed in the family until 1957, when a severe winter destroyed the olive harvest and drove the owners into bankruptcy. Palazzo Ancajani was then bought by the president of Roma football club, who, according to Giachini, wanted “to bring the team here as a retreat from the temptations of the big city”. He also went bankrupt, however, and sold it to an entrepreneur from Viterbo, whose wife and children disliked it, so it was sold on to Giachini’s parents, Vittoriano, a retired general in the Italian Air Force, and Gabriella, in 1986.