Italian Medieval castle listed for €45 million

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Begun in the ninth century, this Medieval castle in Turin, Italy, is on 35,000 square metres of period gardens and includes 30 bedrooms and 47 bathrooms. It includes a Romanic chapel from about 850AD and a courtyard with the evocatively named Fountain of Mysteries.

King Arduino, of the Bishop of Ivrea and the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I have all at one point owned the castle.

It was restored in 1800 by architect Alfredo D’Andrade, and further restoration works were undertaken in the 1990s. It has been listed for sale through Sotheby's International agents Dinetta Spinola and Gianluca Puracchio with price hopes of €45 million. But that could look like spare change compared with the electricity bill - all 30 bedrooms have air-conditioning, and the castle is heated throughout.