The wooden veranda catches the morning light before the rest of the house has even woken up. Sit there with an espresso and you'll hear nothing but wind moving through the olive grove and the occasional distant bell from Salcito's hilltop church. This is Molise — Italy's least-talked-about region, and for those who've found it, that quiet is the whole point.
Set in the municipality of Civitanova del Sannio in the southern Apennines, this four-bedroom country house sits on seven full hectares of rolling land and delivers something that's becoming genuinely rare in Italy: authentic rural character combined with a fully restored, move-in-ready home at a price that still makes sense. At €249,000 fully furnished, you're not buying a project. You're buying a life, ready-made.
The house spans three floors and roughly 200 square metres of liveable space, plus a generous cellar, utility room, and a large shed all internally connected — useful details if you're thinking about extended stays, visiting family, or simply needing somewhere dry to store the olive harvest. And yes, there's an actual olive harvest. The land includes 46 olive trees and eight fruit trees alongside agricultural plots, woodland, and a natural spring that feeds the lower fields. This isn't a garden — it's a working small estate, the kind of thing Italians call a podere, and it functions accordingly.
Walk through the main entrance and you step into an enclosed wooden veranda that runs the full width of the house. Panoramic windows frame the landscape on three sides — not as a design statement, but as a practical winter garden, warm and bright even in January. It's the room you'll use most. Ground floor continues with a proper living room (21 square metres), ... click here to read more
