When someone has enough economic power to use their “private jet” to approve a local airport As an international airport, the minimum that is expected is to stay in the best mansions of the places you visit. However, when This is the emir of Qatarwhat is expected is not only that you stay in them, but that you buy them.
Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, current emir of Qatar, sounds like the main interested party in Villa Certosa, one of the most famous mansions (and more extravagant) of Sardinia, which for years has been owned by Silvio Berlusconi since the 70s, and now from his heirs.
A garden with a private volcano
Villa Certosa is located in Porto Rotondo, on the northeastern tip of Sardinia, overlooking the Gulf of Marinella, and it’s huge. Built on an area of 120 hectares of land, it has 4,500 square meters distributed in 126 rooms.
The most striking curiosity about this mansion is not its hundreds of rooms or its enormous 50-hectare garden with ancient olive trees. In this farm the “star whim” It is an artificial volcanodesigned to spit fire and smoke and turn the landscape into a spectacle. The architect got out of hand with the science experiment.
The artificial volcano is part of that idea of a “theme park” that Berlusconi had for his villa. In 2006, the Italian tycoon ordered to build an artificial hill about 10 meters in the middle of your property. That generated controversy and led to an investigation into the area’s landscaping regulations. Under this hill something much more explosive was hidden.
As and how I collected Europa Presson the night of August 15 of that same year, the Italian politician and millionaire pressed the power button on his volcano as the culmination of one of the usual parties that were organized in the mansion. The noise was such that the neighbors called the firefighters, Civil Protection and the Forestry Corps after seeing the lava explosions and the fire coming out of that artificial hill.
Beyond the artificial volcano, the farm adds very striking details: a (false) Roman amphitheater by the sea with capacity for 300 people, a sea cave with a pool and a Poseidon mosaic, four additional pools spread across the estate and a underground bunker nuclear grade.
Berlusconi bought the property when it was still known as Villa Monastero in the early 1970s and transformed it with architect Gianni Gamondi. Over time, Villa Certosa became a common scenario of political and media visits. within its walls political figures stayed top level such as George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin or Tony Blair, as well as Spanish politicians who coincided with Berlusconi’s time in political life, such as José Luis Zapatero and José María Aznar.
The emir rules in Qatar, but looks at Sardinia
Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thaniemir of Qatar, is the visible head of one of the richest and most powerful families on the planet. It is estimated that the Al Thani dynasty manages a joint fortune that exceeds 335,000 million dollarswhich makes the purchase of a 500 million mansion something perfectly affordable for your pocket.
In fact, the emir is already a regular on these coasts, where he usually sails with one of his superyachts, the Al Lusail, his impressive yacht 123 meters long, also valued at 500 million dollars.
His interest in the area is not limited to summer tourism, since through sovereign funds controls several hotels historical luxury hotels on the Costa Smeralda such as Cala di Volpe or Romazzino.
Regarding the possible purchase of the villa, from the surroundings of the heirs of Il Cavaliere They wanted to be prudent. A spokesperson for Fininvest declared to Euronews: “We are collecting several expressions of interest, but at the moment there are no negotiations at an advanced stage. We do not comment on individual interlocutors.”
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