It's popular for the well-to-do to rent or buy an Italian villa in order to spend several weeks of the year vacationing in luxuriant Mediterranean splendor. And if your budget hovers around half a bil, all the better:

Barely a stone's throw away from Via Veneto, the iconic street memorialized by "La Dolce Vita" director Federico Fellini, Villa Aurora is flanked by a garden and various garages, and covers a total of 2,800 square meters (just over half an acre), according to public sales documents published by the Justice Ministry.

The six-floor property houses a myriad of artworks including an oil wall painting attributed to Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, better known simply as Caravaggio, whose body of work became synonymous with the artist's visceral depictions of violence...

The painting has an estimated value of more than 310 million euros ($360 million), according to Alessandro Zuccari, a history of modern art professor at Sapienza University of Rome.

Okay so, the bulk of the price tag looks to be associated with Caravaggio's mural. That's unsurprising, as he was one of the greatest painters who ever lived.

If that's out of your price range, of course, there are plenty of other apartments in Rome to explore, all of them just a short Vespa ride away. So you should probably go check those out.