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principessa giulia panichi pignatelli
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This is a village of historic interest, with buildings that date from mediaeval times to the 19th Century. The Park was designed by the renowned German botanist, Ludovico Winter.
The country house was built in 1742 on the foundations of an old castle built as a defence on the summit of the hill in approximately the XIVth Century. During the renovations done to the villa 'bocche di Lupo', grilles and unadorned burial pits, were uncovered in the basement. This points to the existence of mediaeval tombs dating further back in time. The castle, already a settlement in Roman times, looked down upon the river Lama and the Salaria road. In the XIIIth Century it was home to a Cicetersian convent and the influence of its nuns certainly helped keep peace in these troubled times in the borderlands between the Papal State, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the Guelfs and the Ghibellines.
The residence , standing on the hill within view of the Gran Sasso and the Monte dei Fiori, is built in a T shape and maintains the form and character of the patrician home of the XVIIth Century.
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