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The spacious apartment, 100 meters square, is on the first floor of a large house.
Excellent exposition, east, south & west, with magnificent sea views towards Ventimiglia & France.
It is opposite & overlooks the Hanbury Gardens.
The high vaulted ceilings conserve the original architectural design.
The entrance is into a large and luminous well equipped kitchen & dining area, which leads into a very large living room which is divided into two areas. The first is light and has a big couch and comfortable wicker chairs the inner living area has a large corner couch and t.v area. The 2 bedrooms lead, separately off from the living room.
The first is a bedroom with double bed, the second has 2 twin beds. Both bedrooms have separate access to the large bathroom which has WC, shower, sink area & washing machine.
The house is full of books and paintings.
There is a cellar for the use of the guest for storage .
There is a small outside area with table & chair
The 49-acre gardens just three miles west of Ventimiglia on the French- Italian border was built by Thomas Hanbury, a wealthy Englishman who made his money in China trading in silk, tea, and cotton, with the help of his botanist brother Daniel in 1867. It's now known as both La Mortola and the Hanbury Botanical Gardens.
Nearest Airport : Nice at 50 Kilometres
Nearest Ferry : Nice at 50 Kilometres
Nearest Train : Menton at 4 Kilometres
Nearest Motorway : Menton or Ventimiglia at 6 Kilometres
Nearest Beach : Latte at 2 Kilometres
Nearest Barpub : Latte at 1.5 Kilometres
Nearest Restaurant : Latte at 1.5 Kilometres
Car: recommended
Mortola Inferiore is in a privileged Franco Italian border region. The hamlet of Mortola is a few km from the French border& the lovely seaside town of Menton on the Cote d'Azur & 4km to Ventimiglia in Italy. 45 minutes to Nice airport. Close to train stations in Italy & France. 5 minutes from the beaches and the very famous surfers beach of le Calandre is only a few km away. 10 minutes walk straight down the hill to the sea. Minutes away from the famous caves of Balzi Rossi.15 minutes from the well know Principality of Montecarlo. Monaco is 15 minutes away. In this last border zone in 1867 the English Hanbury family created a world famous botanical garden, due to the climate it has many rare and unusual plants, fountains, pergolas & statues For garden enthusiast the Hanbury gardens can be combined with visits to some of the French gardens in this part of the world, particularly in Menton, just down the road.
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