Two-level penthouseGranvilla, Sappada

Penthouse in Granvilla

For salePrice on requestRef. SV-01

gross internal: 163.2 m²
bedrooms: 3
bathrooms: 3

The home

A new penthouse on two levels, under the roof of a just-completed building in Granvilla: a large living room beneath the beams, three bedrooms, three bathrooms and two timber balconies facing the meadows and the peaks.

The first level is almost entirely living space: a single room under the timber roof, partly double-height, with a wide-plank floor and sliding glazed doors onto the balcony that runs the length of the façade, facing south. On the same floor there are a bedroom and a bathroom, for those who would rather not take the stairs.

The wooden staircase, with a light under every step, climbs to the attic level: the largest bedroom with its own bathroom, a second bedroom, another bathroom and a laundry room. Both bedrooms open onto the upper balcony, beneath the gable; at the sides, where the floor stops, you look down into the living room.

The home is new and has never been lived in. We photographed it on 28 April 2026, with finishing still under way: there was no kitchen, and the bathrooms lacked basins and shower enclosures. The balcony looks south, over the hamlet's roofs, towards the mountains; it was raining that day, which is why the view in the photos is declared a simulation.

At a glance

Type: Penthouse
Hamlet: Granvilla
Floor: Top floor
Levels: 2
Gross internal area: 163.2 m²
Balconies and terraces: 22.5 m²
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 3
Condition: New, never lived in
Main aspect: South
Energy class: certificate pending
Price: Price on request
Reference: SV-01

The gross internal and balcony areas come from the 3D-survey floor plan: they are approximate, and they are not the saleable area.

What it has

On two levels
Balconies
Exposed beams
Lit internal staircase
View of the peaks

Gallery

The home, room by room

Living area of the penthouse: beamed ceiling, wooden floor and the lit staircase leading to the upper level — Living room

The living room under the roof: exposed beams, a window onto the meadow and the staircase beyond — Living room

Detail of the wooden staircase, with a light under every step — Detail

The lit steps of the staircase and, beyond, the glazed door onto the balcony — Staircase

Wooden sliding door onto the balcony, facing the forest — Living room

The wooden balcony along the façade, facing the mountain — Balconies and terrace

View from the balcony: the hamlet's roofs, meadows, forest and the peaks above Sappada — View

Corner of the balcony, with the bell tower and the hamlet's houses below the peaks — Balconies and terrace

The balcony seen along the timber façade, with the meadow and houses below — Balconies and terrace

Every photo reworked with AI carries its label: open it to read what was done.

All 14 photos

Good to know before a visit

It is unfurnished and no kitchen is fitted: the connections are in place.
On the attic level the ceiling drops at the sides of the bedrooms: it should be seen in person.
A residential building is still going up next door: crane and scaffolding until works are complete. In the exterior photos the crane has been removed, and we say so.
The regional road runs about a hundred metres away.
Saleable area, energy class, parking or storage and price will come with the developer's documents: until we have them, we do not state them.

From the balcony

What you see, and when the sun arrives

For the hamlets, the site calculates the horizon from a single point. Here the calculation has been redone for this home: from an approximate point of the building, with the eye about 9.5 m above the ground, at balcony height. The ridge line is that of the terrain model; above it are the sun's paths on the days that matter.

Direction of view

Move your mouse or finger over the panorama, or use the slider beside it: you can read the direction, the height of the ridge, the peak, and the time the sun passes that way.

21 DecemberEquinoxes (21 March)21 JuneSolid line: the sun is in view.Dashed line: it has risen, but is behind the mountain.The paler mountains are the more distant ones.The strip scrolls: south is in the centre, north at both ends. One degree is the same length across and upwards.Veiled: the half of the horizon that lies behind the house. The stretch marked on the compass is the one the balcony looks onto: it faces south, give or take 15°.

In words: in front of the balcony the highest stretch of ridge lies to the south-east, 19.8° above the horizon; the lowest to the east, 7.1°. To the south the ridge stands at 15.3°, and at midday on 21 December the sun climbs to 20°. At midday on that day the sun is in view.

Hours of direct sun, month by month

On the 21st of each month, under a clear sky, at the point of the house. The pale band is the day as it would be without mountains. The black tick is the part that falls on the balcony side: in summer the sun rises and sets behind the house.

direct sun at the point of the house
the day without mountains
of which on the balcony side

On 21 June the point has about 14 h 25 min of direct sun, but only about 8 h 50 min of it falls on the balcony side: the rest comes from the side or from behind. The orientation is an estimate, give or take 15°; shifting it, the figure ranges from 8 h 45 min to 9 h 20 min.

21 December, the shortest day

First light: 10:40at about
Last light: 15:00at about
Direct sun: 4 h 20 minabout

Without mountains the day would last 8 h 30 min: the ridge takes away 4 h 10 min.
The centre of the hamlet, with the eye 6 m above the ground, gives 4 h 40 min and first light at about 10:00: here the calculation gives 20 min less. That is the difference between “the hamlet” and a house.
How firm the figure is: moving the point by 30 m in any direction, direct sun ranges from 4 h 15 min to 4 h 20 min; one floor lower, 4 h 20 min.

The summits in view

According to the calculation: at least twenty metres of summit above the terrain in between. A wood, a nearby house or cloud can still hide them; the names are assigned by bearing, not recognised on site.

In front of the balcony

Monte Cimonto the east · 7 km · 2,415 m
Monte Sierato the south-east · 3.3 km · 2,443 m
Creton di Clap Grandeto the south · 4 km · 2,487 m
Terza Piccolato the west · 3.9 km · 2,336 m

To the side of the house or behind it

Monte Tugliato the east · 7.1 km · 1,945 m
Monte del Ferroto the north · 2.1 km · 2,347 m

MethodA calculation, not a measurement: terrain model at 10 m, clear sky, an approximate point of the building with the eye about 9.5 m above the ground. Trees and nearby buildings are not counted, and can take away both view and sun; the position is approximate and the eye height is estimated from the number of floors; times are rounded to five minutes and, where the sun skims a ridge, they can shift by ten to twenty. To be checked at a viewing.

Sources and details of the calculation

The same method as for the hamlets: one ray for every half degree of horizon, the sun calculated minute by minute for the year 2027, in Italian local time; the sun counts as present when the centre of its disc is above the ridge. The coordinates of the point are not published: the page does not identify the building. Calculated on 7 October 2026.

Tarquini S., I. Isola, M. Favalli, A. Battistini, G. Dotta (2023). TINITALY, a digital elevation model of Italy with a 10 meters cell size (Version 1.1). Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV). doi.org/10.13127/tinitaly/1.1
produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved
Cime: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0 — www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
Posizione del sole: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Solar Calculator (gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/), da J. Meeus, «Astronomical Algorithms»

Floor plans

How it is laid out

110.3 m² gross internal

The rooms on this level

Plan from a 3D survey, redrawn in our colours. Approximate measurements: for each room the two longest sides, in metres.

3D tour

Walk through it

The 3D survey is from the day of the shoot and shows the home as it really was: finished, empty, with a few tools still on the floor. It is the most faithful reference there is, after a visit.

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In motion

They are photographs of this home animated with AI: a few seconds of camera movement, without sound. They are not video footage. The source photos are those in the gallery, with the same declarations.

Clip animated with AI from a photograph.
Clip animated with AI from a photograph.
Clip animated with AI from a photograph.
Clip animated with AI from a photograph.

Energy

Energy class: certificate pending

The energy performance certificate is not yet among the documents we hold: we have asked for it. Until it exists we state no class, not even the design one.

The hamlet

Granvillain the Sappada dialect Dorf

A home in Sappada is also chosen for its hamlet: how much winter sun it gets, how far it is from the lifts and the village, what it looks onto. The hamlet page sets it out with data.

Altitude of the hamlet centre: 1,243 m
Hours of sun at the winter solstice: 4.7 h
Hours of sun at the summer solstice: 14.2 h

Computed on the terrain model, at the centre of the hamlet: trees and buildings are not considered, and an individual home may differ.

The Granvilla page

Purchase costs

What buying it costs, beyond the price

Taxes, notary and commission change with your situation: first or second home, purchase from a private seller or from a company. We will not put a guess here: the tool works it out from your data, and for the rest there is your notary.

Open the cost calculator

AI, cards on the table

How we used AI in these photos

All 14 photos were processed by a generative model. 12 are simulations: they show something that was not in the shot. In one, objects were removed. One is retouched in light and colour only. A visit remains the only reference.

Read how we edited them, photo by photo

The photographs were taken on 28 April 2026.

The reworked photos were processed by a generative image model (Nano Banana 2), used through the Higgsfield platform. Where an object was removed, what it hid had not been photographed: the model reconstructed it plausibly.

We did not change dimensions, heights, openings, floors, windows or finishes: they are as photographed.

7 images we do not publish: comparing them with the original shot we saw that the model had invented something or changed the room.

The 4 video clips are photographs animated with a video model (Kling v3.0): they are not footage, and the movement brings in at the edges things the photo did not show.

The original shots are on file and can be requested: we will publish them beside each photo once the seller has been informed.

Living roomPhoto edited with AI: objects were removed, and what they hid is reconstructed.
Protective cardboard removed from the floor; the surface underneath is reconstructed by the model. Tools and building materials removed from the floor; the surface where they stood is reconstructed by the model. Light and colour corrected.
Living roomSimulation: AI added or reconstructed something that was not in the shot.
Tools and building materials removed from the floor; the surface where they stood is reconstructed by the model. Marks and wall plugs left by the building works removed from the wall. Patches of sunlight added on the floor that were not in the shot. The view through the glass is brightened. Light and colour corrected.
DetailPhoto retouched with AI in light and colour only: nothing added or removed.
Light and colour corrected.
StaircaseSimulation: AI added or reconstructed something that was not in the shot.
Sky replaced: on the day of the shoot it was overcast, with rain and sleet. The peaks, in cloud that day, are reconstructed by the model: their true outline may differ. Light and colour corrected.
Living roomSimulation: AI added or reconstructed something that was not in the shot.
The view through the glass is partly reconstructed by the model: it was raining and hazy on the day of the shoot. The peaks, in cloud that day, are reconstructed by the model: their true outline may differ. Light and colour corrected.
Balconies and terraceSimulation: AI added or reconstructed something that was not in the shot.
Sky replaced: on the day of the shoot it was overcast, with rain and sleet. The peaks, in cloud that day, are reconstructed by the model: their true outline may differ. The bar handles on the glazed door were added by the model: they are not the real ones. Tools and building materials removed from the floor; the surface where they stood is reconstructed by the model. Light and colour corrected.
ViewSimulation: AI added or reconstructed something that was not in the shot.
Sky replaced: on the day of the shoot it was overcast, with rain and sleet. The peaks, in cloud that day, are reconstructed by the model: their true outline may differ. Light and colour corrected.
Balconies and terraceSimulation: AI added or reconstructed something that was not in the shot.
Sky replaced: on the day of the shoot it was overcast, with rain and sleet. The peaks, in cloud that day, are reconstructed by the model: their true outline may differ. Light and colour corrected.
Balconies and terraceSimulation: AI added or reconstructed something that was not in the shot.
Tools and building materials removed from the floor; the surface where they stood is reconstructed by the model. Sky replaced: on the day of the shoot it was overcast, with rain and sleet. The peaks, in cloud that day, are reconstructed by the model: their true outline may differ. Light and colour corrected.
BedroomSimulation: AI added or reconstructed something that was not in the shot.
Loose cable ends coming out of the wall removed. The view through the glass is partly reconstructed by the model: it was raining and hazy on the day of the shoot. Light and colour corrected.
BathroomSimulation: AI added or reconstructed something that was not in the shot.
Protective cardboard removed from the floor; the surface underneath is reconstructed by the model. Under the cardboard the model drew a wooden floor: what is really there cannot be seen in the shot. Loose cable ends coming out of the wall removed. Light and colour corrected.
DetailSimulation: AI added or reconstructed something that was not in the shot.
The rain and sleet visible in the shot removed. Sky replaced: on the day of the shoot it was overcast, with rain and sleet.
ExteriorSimulation: AI added or reconstructed something that was not in the shot.
The crane, vehicles and site materials around the house removed. The lawn in front of the house is simulated: on the day of the shoot there was bare site soil. The grey window screens, closed in the shot, are replaced by visible windows. Sky replaced: on the day of the shoot it was overcast, with rain and sleet. The peaks, in cloud that day, are reconstructed by the model: their true outline may differ. Vertical lines straightened.
ExteriorSimulation: AI added or reconstructed something that was not in the shot.
The crane, vehicles and site materials around the house removed. The lawn in front of the house is simulated: on the day of the shoot there was bare site soil. The grey window screens, closed in the shot, are replaced by visible windows. Sky replaced: on the day of the shoot it was overcast, with rain and sleet. The peaks, in cloud that day, are reconstructed by the model: their true outline may differ.