This apartment sits on the third and top floor of an ancient three-storey building that faces south-east and is located in the quiet, upper part of Via Mazzini in the heart of Arezzo’s historical centre and bordering with the building where Giorgio Vasari was born on 30.07.1511.
The building is not much different to many others in the same road and indeed much of Arezzo, the front door is very modest but is hiding a secret that leaves you with the warm feeling of a successful museum visit. The staircase was clearly renovated in the sixties or seventies but your first clue to an interesting visit is the ornate, listed, wrought iron stair railings on the internal staircase leading to the various levels, where, on the balcony on the top floor bears, in a central position, the bishop’s coat of arms of the Diocese of Arezzo, Cortona and Sansepolcro, so much so that it has been subjected to an artistic restriction by the Superintendence of Arezzo. 
The palazzo appears to have been owned since before 1700 by the Diocese of Arezzo, which had used it as accommodation for prelates and nuns and the top floor apartment appears to have been the home of Bishop Bernardino Cellesi, capitular vicar of the Diocese of Arezzo, for some years, probably from around 1795 to the first decade of the 19th century. This emerges unequivocally from a Latin inscription frescoed on the upper part of the front wall of the small room located off the entrance to the flat that was certainly a prayer chapel.
The reinforced elegant entrance door takes you into the apartment to a small entrance and you are confronted with a high vaulted prayer chapel. This is the only area with frescoes that has not been meticulously restored, even so it starts the heart beating as the frescoes are clear to see and you immediately know that you are in a special space. The large living room takes you into the heart of the apartment all beautifully restored with high ceilings and reclaimed oak floors and leads you into a bright modern large kitchen/dining room of 25 square meters, with a modern Veneta aluminium/glass kitchen with all modern conveniences and a closable workspace for any unsightly kitchen work and storage.
It is from here that you enter through the hand painted door set in a Pietra Serena frame to the second living room containing the outstanding frescoes described below and best to refer to the photographs of this listing. From here a good sized bedroom also with frescoes with an incorporated dressing room and access to the shower room with vaulted shower and modern fixtures and fittings. This shower room is also accessed with a wide corridor, with washing machine, taking you back to the large living room. The attention to detail is excellent and although the apartment covers 116 square meters  its ceilings of up to 3.25 meters give is a light airy and friendly feel. You would be living in your own Art Gallery/Museum.