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“Ne pas se servir, ne pas s’asservir mais servir”
Years of abandonment had led the farm cottage to a situation of extreme degrade. The place had been abandoned by the owners since 1907 and the building had started to decay like a dead body. Vandals and burglars completed the work, ruining the rooms and stealing steps, pavements, statues, columns, fixtures and coats of arms. The family coat of arms, on one of the outside fronts, was stolen in the eighties and was casually found in an antique shop in Tuscany.
The renovation works started in 2011, thanks to the stubborn resolution of Giusy and Pietro and encouraged by the funding obtained by the G.A.L. Ponte Lama, in total respect of the former building.
We entered the Posta on bare foot trying to “not disturb”, choosing to leave the rooms as they were before and to use local materials.
A photo from 1913, found in a drawer, was our bible: we wanted to bring the building to its former life as a witness of the ancient history. |
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