29/09/2022
[ Italiano in fondo ]
Lately, there has been a rise of archaeological parks that try to reconstruct the abitations and workshops of the people of the past, but it is generally with mud chovels or log cabins more pertaining to the early middle ages rather than the richness and complexity of the cities of the 13th and 14th centuries.
As reenactors and artisans, we started looking for a way to cover this distance that we saw as sorely needed, and to revive such history in a proper place.
..maybe even one built in the medieval age
..where hosting history seminars and courses, unfazed by the whims of time
..where creating reenacting events that can be held in an historically accurate location.
..if only such a place could be found right now, surviving the passage of time.
And after some search... We’ve found it!
We decided to launch this campaign to acquire the site and restore it to its 650 years old state, transforming it into a place were you could revive the history of a real medieval artisan’s place, from the house he lived in to the spaces dedicated to work the leather and the steel for the creation of Swords.
All of this, however, can be done only with your help.
Join us in this quest and come spend some of your time in a place suspended in time. Learn one of our crafts or, why not, give way to some vanity and get a period fotoshoot in a place that has lived real history!
The history
The Mullion that characterizes the main body of the building is made up of an actual Roman column, surely taken from the nearby Villas as the town started to grow. The style of the mullion and the round vault of the inside suggest that the edifice had been built by the 13th century, during that time it was certainly isolated from other structures that are most certainly of a later period, when the main frame of the building was encapsulated by the new constructions, part of the new town walls,
Just a few steps down the road we find the Church of Saint Antonino, built during the15th century and already encapsulated in the town walls, suggesting that the union of the original 13th century house and the rest of the larger structure happened somewhere in this period interval.
Another indication of this is the Pointed arch from the current entrance, from a style decidedly later in period than the present in the archs of the mullion. On this arch we can see as well the reusing of Roman marble blocks, including Latin inscriptions.
Digging through the archives we’ve managed to found some older pictures, from the 1930’s and later were you can see the structure in almost the same conditions as today’s, and also some watercolor paintings from 1907, by the painter Scipione Simoni, which also show, albeit carrying some artistic liscences, the inequivocal shape of the palazzetto.
Let's keep in touch!
During the restoration we will publish daily live broadcasts and videos on Facebook and Instagram. We will be doing a weekly Twitch stream and collecting the highlights in our Youtube videos.
