The Mar Pietra compound in Delray Beach, Florida, is being offered at $60 million. Daniel Petroni The owner of a beachfront mansion in Delray Beach, Florida, is looking to shatter a local price record with a home that delivers old-school Italian flair above ground and hidden personality below. While the upper levels are adorned with 300 stone-carved columns, vaulted ceilings and even a fresco painted in Florence, Italy, the home's subterranean space is packed with modern luxuries including a super car gallery, glowing tequila bar and a steel vault packed with piles of cash.
The two distinct design themes are wrapped in a limestone-clad residence located on the town's ultra-high-end South Ocean Boulevard. The 23,000-plus square-foot home is called Mar Pietra, Italian for "sea stone." "So much stone went into this house, I thought it was appropriate," owner Massimo Musa told CNBC.
watch now VIDEO 19:42 19:42 A look inside a $60 million Florida mansion with subterranean secrets and Italian flair Real Estate Musa founded and sold several companies in the eye-care industry. He also develops real estate and built Mar Pietra with this now ex-wife. The passion project took five years to complete and employed dozens of craftsmen, painters and sculptors, many of them from Italy.
Tons of limestone were shipped here from Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula; hand-carved marble made the journey from Verona, Italy; and massive panels of cedar arrived from Colombia. Sunrise over the pool. Under the a.