Appartamento IDA – Property for sale in Messina, Sicilia, Italy

Appartamento Ida – Messina

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Appartamento Ida is a beautiful two-bedroom flat with a wide wrap-around balcony which offers a magical maritime view with a special twist. Constructed in 2011, it has never actually been lived in but is sold in pristine condition, ready for a swift and easy move.

Standing just outside Messina on the northern tip of Sicily’s east coast, its unique panorama takes in both the Strait of Messina and Italy’s mainland across the water. Calabria, the toe of the boot that supposedly kicks Sicily into the Mediterranean, is so close you’d almost believe you could swim across the narrow channel; its green hills rolling gently away in the day and the city of Reggio Calabria picked out in twinkling lights at night.

Ida offers 100m2 of bright, airy indoor space consisting of an ample living room, a kitchen, two bedrooms, two bathrooms and over 20m2 of sea view terrace. Housed in a stylish residential complex with plenty of outdoor parking, it also benefits from a private double garage which itself measures 30m2.

With a railway station just metres from your front door and the main road within easy reach this is a conveniently located property which has been finished to an extremely high standard. If this corner of the island takes your fancy and you aren’t looking to get drawn into a complicated renovation project, you’ll certainly want to take a closer look…

The Property
On the fourth (and penultimate) floor of its modern ‘palazzo’ complex, Ida is divided into a semi-open living area and what the Italians would refer to as a ‘night zone’ that can comfortably sleep four. The broad and pristine shared landing, reached by an elevator, opens through the apartment’s front door into a long living room with twin French windows directly in front of the entrance. The balcony beyond extends both the available space and the view, with a south-easterly aspect that floods the space with the warm morning sun.

Behind you and to your left a wide archway leads to the kitchen, which has already been finished with a tiled backsplash. The floors throughout this part of the home are practically finished with a high-quality ceramic tile. As you move into the corridor which takes you to the bed- and bathrooms this changes to a diagonally laid, walnut parquet. The kitchen has a north-east facing window and balcony access.

Moving into the corridor, the first bedroom you come to is the larger of the two, around 25m2, with another window perfectly angled to catch the morning sunshine. Opposite this, a bathroom with tub is tiled in a colourful mix of blue and white which reminds you how close you are to the sea. A decadent little touch is the hydromassage jets in this tub, which let you create your own mini jacuzzi!

The guest bedroom faces north-east, another superb sea view, along the coast towards Messina. A second bathroom is finished in brown and ochre mosaic tiles, with a beautiful large walk-in shower.

The standout feature of the apartment is…