Real Estate for Sale: Montevideo, Uruguay, Chateau in Montevideo - El Prado

Asking Price: $680,000
Location: El Prado
City: Montevideo
State/Province: Montevideo
Country: Uruguay
Type: House

French-style Château built in 1930 in Montevideo.
Garden with Italian design.
750 m2 constructed and a garden of 2,900 m2.
Main building:
The main building has two storys with comfortable stairs. The two floors are absolutely identical, each of them of 350m2. All the rooms of the two floors have access to a terrace and the garden.
First floor
The first floor covers 350m2 including roofed terraces and two garages. Moreover there is a main door and an entrance which connects the house with the pantry. The extended garden's terrace has also an excellently forged iron balustrade. In this floor the reception hall which includes a cloakroom, a rest-room, and the marmoreal main stairs. Moreover there are three very large bedrooms and a beautiful dining-room and two living rooms. Furthermore there are two bathrooms and a very large kitchen with pantry and an access to the basement.
The second floor
The second floor covers 350m2. There are larege open terraces. From the reception hall downstairs you go upstairs, where you are surrounded by marmoreal walls, Rococo-style windows (vitraux francaises). There are three bedrooms, two bathrooms with lovely vitrines, which are comunicated with a private secundary stairs. From each bedroom you have an access to a terrace with a vista over the garden. As in the first floor there are two living-rooms and a large dining-room.
Barbecue and Swimming Pool
The barbecue and the swimming pool are in a separeted construction (200m2)in a part of the garden onthe side of the house. Not only does it contain all the necesary instalations for its use, but also higenical services. The garden is Italian-style and the gate is Florentine-style. The garden's lawn is enframed by alleys of granitic slabs and little tiled paths. In the so-formed large open spaces there is a plenty of adult palms of various especies and other trees like basswoods, cedars, mulberries, magnolias, cypresses, medlars etc... There are also bushes, plenty of climbings and rosebushes.
It is a perfect place for an embassy or an international organization.