{"id":5199,"date":"2017-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.pellealvegetale.it\/sammezzano-castle\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T10:30:34","slug":"sammezzano-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.pellealvegetale.it\/en\/sammezzano-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammezzano Castle: a gem to be saved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A marvel&nbsp;nestled in the green Tuscan hills. Exactly in Leccio, near Florence. So we could define the Sammezzano Castle, residence in the centuries of some of the most important Florentine families: Gualtierotti, Altoviti, and even Medici. It was originally built in 16th century, and then rebuilt in the 1800s according to Moorish style, with Syrian-Muslim artistic influences. Twisted arches and domes, ceramics and refined drawings: inside the Castle you could admire all this. &#8220;You could&#8221;, we write: in fact at the moment the&nbsp;building&nbsp;is closed to the public, except for&nbsp;rare visits&nbsp;organized by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondoambiente.it\/\">FAI<\/a>&nbsp;in collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savesammezzano.com\/il-movimento\">Movimento SaveSammezzano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>The Castle, its transformation and the decline<\/h2>\n<p>This Florentine Castle have seen it all. It was born as a portion of an agricultural estate, in the&nbsp;period of WWII it was used by the Allies as an emergency hospital. When the conflict ended, a new&nbsp;ownership bought it at auction and turned it into a luxury hotel and restaurant, consisting of 365 rooms decorated in different ways: this &#8220;new status&#8221; lasted until 1990. In 1999 it was auctioned again and was bought by an Italian-English company that&nbsp;managed it, with obvious shortcomings, until September 2015. From that moment the recovery work was&nbsp;entrusted to Movimento SaveSammezzano, but to achieve the goal would require&nbsp; considerable investment. Most of all a new ownership would be necessary with a clear and wide-ranging redevelopment project achievable over the medium&nbsp;to long term.<\/p>\n<h2>Sammezzano Castle: emblem of a rundown Italy<\/h2>\n<p>Sammezzano is a castle that witnesses the past of our territory, an architectural representation left to us as a legacy to tell us our story. All that, at least till now, has not been enough to bring the Sammezzano Castle back to its&nbsp;former glory.&nbsp; Seeing a piece of history abandoned to itself is extremely sad, it&#8217;s a real&nbsp;waste. It&#8217;s the emblem of Italy that does not believe in art,&nbsp;that is unable to understand that art can become decisive for the territory and&nbsp; tourism, the real driving force behind Italian economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A marvel&nbsp;nestled in the green Tuscan hills. Exactly in Leccio, near Florence. 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