Two centuries after Napoleon’s younger sister called it home, a historic villa outside Lucca, Italy is back on the market — an exceedingly rare chance to own a property entwined with the Bonaparte family’s Tuscan legacy.

Mansion Global first reported on the offering.

Known today as Villa Orsucci, the estate was acquired in 1836 by Caroline Bonaparte, who through her marriage to French general Joachim Murat became queen consort of Naples.

Her reign, from 1808 to 1815, was short-lived, but her connection to Tuscany left a lasting mark. 18

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The villa, which dates to the 16th century, was extensively reimagined in the early 1700s when silk merchant Coriolano Orsucci hired Italian Baroque architect Filippo Juvarra to expand and modernize the home.

The result was a grand resid

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