Villa Filangeri di San Marco

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Villa Filangeri di San Marco is a villa in Santa Flavia , Sicily .

Building history

The architectural basis for the Sicilian villas are the stately country houses of the Italian mainland, which are combined with the architecture of Arab-Norman fortifications, from which a distinctively Sicilian villa type developed from the 16th century, such as the villa of Ercole Branciforte in Bagheria towards the end of the 16th century.

History notes that Robert Guiscard had a castle built on this site in 1061 , which the Staufers gave to the royal domain administrator Abbo Filangeri . In 1453 King Alfonso Ricardo Filangeri raised the rank of Count of San Marco. In order to protect against raids, the previous building was already heavily fortified.

The current building was commissioned in 1673 by Conte di San Marco, Vincenzo Giuseppe Filangeri , to manage and protect his sugar cane plantation ("cannamele"). Filingeri commissioned the architect and Dominican priest Andrea Cirrincione with the new building, whereby the fortified character of the property should be preserved.

Building description

A high wall with the low farm buildings on the inside surrounds the tree-lined area, from the center of which the massive structure of the residential building protrudes. The wide two-armed staircase from 1678 leads over a drawbridge to the “piano nobile”, to the representative rooms. The barrel-vaulted cistern room is located under the large, barrel-vaulted entrance hall.

The villa is still privately owned today. During the Second World War Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , a relative of the Filangheri, lived here .

literature

  • Angheli Zalapi, Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi: Palaces in Sicily . Könemann, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8290-2117-8 .

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Coordinates: 38 ° 4 ′ 52.9 "  N , 13 ° 31 ′ 29.3"  E