For the cashed-up buyer with an eye for history, it would be the ultimate Tuscan holiday retreat. A castle that was once stayed in by Galileo Galilei has gone on sale near Siena for 28 million euros, or £20 million. Once owned by an aristocratic Italian family that sent two popes to the Vatican, it is more a fortified village than a single property.

It boasts not only 20 outlying cottages and a church, but barns, stables, a tennis court, two lakes, a vineyard and an extensive olive grove.

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