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VILLA CENTOFIORI GILI GEDE ISLAND

LIVE ON AN ISLAND IS FASCINATING. People come here to a tropical island looking for the magic, expecting to find romance

when they can’t find it any other place but it’s an island, if you don’t bring it here, you won’t

find it here.

Living on Islands is problematic everywhere and mostly depends on infrastructures

available. The most emblematic example we can refer to is a Maldive’s island, which is

self-contained island-hotel: their guests can only have what the hotel is providing.

When, on the island you go, there is nothing to make living there ease, you have to ar-

range everything you may need to make your life comfortable and safe.

Maybe due to the high price of the land, either by habit in the Southeast Asia and Bali,

first of all, to build their houses with minimum land space, today we see residential areas

also luxury ones constructed so close enough to challenge the obscene. Have a look

at the picture above (I won’t say where, but it’s on an island) and the others on next

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page where are clearly visible the high walls on right and left to provide privacy.

There are resorts today, with fancy names like “boutique resort”, “SPA resort”, selling vil-

las of 1-2-3 bedrooms in what can be defined as condominiums, as they have some

shared facilities but have partition walls to divide them from the house next door. Often

Balinese bathrooms are made for this type of villa which is partially in open air and walls

around are unavoidable. Don’t even think to talk to your wife in the next room or out-

side because neighbors can’t avoid to listen to you. This is exactly the heavy level of

cosmopolitan development that western inhabitants are escaping from.

These kind of resorts on the mainland are still an acceptable thing as they have access

to a road and maybe even have a garage or a parking space.

Imagine what this will be on a small island where are not even allowed motorbikes.

Who buys these villas, only have small paths to access their homes. Owner cannot have

own means of transport nor a boat because he hasn’t a place to moor it and if all the

owners want a boat to move around or go fishing, this resort would need a port. A cor-

al island is always surrounded by coral reef that emerges at low tide and makes it im-

possible to reach the beach. If this lucky owner of this villa does not want to get stuck in

the little island where he lives, he needs a car, even if rented, thence a garage where







to park on the mainland.

In an emergency, if you don’t have a boat and a car, you can certainly ask for help,

daytime, but you may die waiting for it.

On mainland Lombok I know a huge Resort partially completed gone totally unsold in

past 8 years. I cannot imagine the future of similar resort on a small island or isolated ar-

eas without any infrastructure whatsoever. In my believe, such a resort namely is “a

place with facilities for vacationers” can be done if arranged as an Hotel and even in

this case have to provide full services to the vacationers because they have no possibil-

ity to go out for food nor cook by themselves because supermarkets aren’t available.

[This is the welcome given to guests of Villa Centofiori.]







In our case, even if I love to go out for dinner sometime, I made things so to be com-

pletely independent as far as food concerned, communication: namely telephone

and Internet, payTV, water, electricity and transport.

I made a jetty outside the gate of the villa, where to moor my boat in deep water so

that even with low tide my boat is floating and I can get onboard. I purchased land on

mainland where I made another jetty to dock and a garage where my car is parked.

Weekly or so we go to town and do the shopping and moreover we have storage

room with huge shelves and fridges, chiller and top freezers to safely store our food.

I had to do this to provide the required comfort for a private residence, we can easily

understand that we need a similar but bigger organization to run a resort and it’s im-

possible to do it in such a structure where the space available is so narrow unless the

resort is providing everything including full board. In other words, is useless to have a

kitchen if there is no place where to do shopping. Moreover, who’s going to buy a villa

in such resort where to stay long term without transportation.

The sentence “if you don’t bring it here, you won’t find it here” isn’t true only for the ro-

mance but for every single thing you may need.







The word Paradise is abused by real estate agents in their listings but absolutely appro-

priate for our Villa Centofiori, where we spent our utmost energies to create a place

that is absolutely friendly, isolated but not segregated, with large spaces to relax, ac-

cess to the sea in any condition, a pool that is not just a puddle, lakes and water flow-

ing in the park with its lovely sound, the possibility staying in the sun but also to choose a

place in the shadows of a grove. We have large quantities of fresh water that is the

basic lack for people living on any island. In an area with no telephone land line, we

made it possible to communicate with the outside and with loved ones with phone and

a good WiFi internet access throughout the Villa, a house extremely comfortable and a

kitchen that any chef would appreciate.

These are just the basic things that Villa Centofiori vouch for.



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