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A new king is set to take the throne at Gippsland’s majestic Mirabilia Castle, which has sold after 238 days on the market.
Owner Regis Fazzani, 87, is downsizing after building the castle himself out of 20,000 bluestone blocks in Willung South, midway between Traralgon and Yarram, over three years.
The 465 sqm house has six bedrooms including one in a turret, a combined dungeon and wine cellar and a, grand hall.
Outside there are sprawling 2.39ha gardens, a separate tearoom and Mt Baw Baw views.
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The double-brick castle sold this month for an undisclosed price which the Herald Sun understands is between $1.3m-$1.5m.
Mr Fazzani previously listed the castle for sale in 2016 and 2018 for a combined 579 days with different agencies, CoreLogic records show. Ray White Rural director Peter Bellingham sold the home, after initially relisting it in January.
After receiving calls from across Australia about Mirabilia Castle, Mr Bellingham sold it to a Melbourne-based family whose patriarch is set to become the “new king of the castle”.
“It’s primarily going to be a retreat for their family and extended family,” Mr Bellingham.
He said the purchasers “fell in love” with the castle and wanted to pay homage to Mr Fazzani.
“There is a big picture of Reg as a young man, they asked him if he would leave it there for them,” Mr Bellingham said.
Mr Fazzani said Mirabilia was a bit smaller than the other castles he had previously constructed, Cockatoo’s Avalon Castle and Trafalgar’s Mirador Springs.
He crafted Mirabilia’s ironwork gates, fences and curtains himself.
Mr Fazzani donated a portion of profits from his previous castles’ sales to charity and will give some money from Mirabilia’s sale to cancer research.
He has hosted several charity banquets in the castle’s great hall with guests wearing medieval dress.
“I was brought up in England and would play in Henry VIII’s hunting lodge as a child and there was a lot of Roman history and ruins of old castles near where I grew up, it’s just natural for me,” he said.
Describing himself as a “mad artist”, Mr Fazzani formerly worked as a painter, sculptor, in theatres and as Bandstand singer Barry Greenwood’s manager.
A book being written about Mr Fazzani’s life is titled The Castle Man.
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