Versace Citadel close to Foster up on the market seems like a 300-year-old fairytale fortress

South Gippsland’s medieval-style Versace Citadel is prepared for a brand new king or queen.

Set on 27.35ha amid the rolling hills of Woorarra West, close to Foster, house owners Fabio Versace and Louise Martin-Versace have put their outdated world-esque home up on the market.

Mr Versace constructed the house, that includes its personal armoury, Italian stone flooring, vintage furnishings, tapestries and artwork, a lot of which will likely be included within the sale.

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There’s even a swimsuit of armour that Mr Versace crafted.

The 67-year-old says that he grew up “dreaming of Robin Hood, King Arthur and sword combating”.

Mr Versace was impressed by European castles and Eltham’s Montsalvat when creating his personal citadel.

Largely self-taught as an artist, Mr Versace handcrafted the fortress’s doorways, home windows and chandeliers, amongst different objects.

Finishing a panelbeating apprenticeship as a youngster outfitted him with the abilities to make the armour and ornamental weapons, together with a sword and battle-axe, that adorn the residence’s partitions.

He painstakingly utilized six coats of paint and used a sea sponge to mix pretend cracks into the rendered partitions to offer them an genuine old-world look.

“For all intents and functions, the home seems prefer it was constructed 200 or 300 years in the past,” Mr Versace says.

He and Ms Martin-Versace discovered a vacant block and began planning the fortress in 2002.

On the time, he was working as a marriage singer and his spouse as a celebrant.

Their busy lives meant they visited the fortress, which they moved into six years in the past, to work on it once they may.

A winding tree-lined driveway results in the abode that boasts 3.9m-high ceilings, two residing and eating areas, two kitchens, two loos and a European laundry, whereas a pair of lion statues weighing 300kg every stand guard exterior.

There’s additionally a cobblestone courtyard, three dams, remnant bushland and a concrete-floored workshop with two-phase energy.

Electricians and carpenters signed off on the fortress’s construct.

Ms Martin-Versace says will probably be arduous to surrender the fortress, however they had been promoting attributable to Mr Versace’s fast-declining Parkinson’s illness.

Ray White Foster director Peter Bellingham says Citadel Versace was a once-in-a-lifetime alternative for purchasers.

“Individuals who have been by means of cherished it,” he says.

“Consumers have checked out it to make use of as a house, short-term lodging and even a studio and artwork gallery.”

Versace Citadel is on the market with a $1.4m-$1.475m worth vary.

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