The infamous estate, owned by former Paymaster General Geoffrey Robinson, earned Mr Blair the nickname “Tuscan Tony” following frequent visits to the region.
The rural area of Italy subsequently became known as Chiantishire after thousands of well-off Britons made it a regular holiday destination.
Mr Robinson, who also owns a penthouse flat on Park Lane, in central London and Orchards, an Elizabethan-style mansion set in 50 acres near Godalming, Surrey, purchased the idyllic four-bedroomed villa in the early 1980s.
He has since painstakingly restored it, furnishing it with 19th century antiques, installing a 15-metre outdoor pool and landscaping the rolling cypress tree-lined gardens.
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