At the Scarzuola, when someone points out that it was not built in accordance with franciscan rules, I answer saying "of course it isn't, it rapresents the whole world, my own world, the one in which I had the fortune to live and work in, the Worlds of Art, Culture, Mondanity, Elegance, Pleasures (vices, wealth and powers included) where I made room for my oasis of meditation, study, work, music and silence, Grandeurs and Poverty, of social and hermit life, of contemplation in solitude. It's my Realm of Fantasy, Fairytales, Myths, Echoes and Reflections out of the time and space because all of you can find the own echoes from the past and some notes for the future"... Tomaso Buzzi
It's an experience everybody should make and even if it is out of the most well known tourist routes and very few people know it, please visit this place that ... will astonish you!
This is a Franciscan convent that dates back to 1218 when St. Francis of Assisi planted here a but of bay and roses. Scarzuola derives its name from Scarza, a marsh plant the Saint used to build himself a shelter with. We started our guided tour in the Church where an earlt 18th century fresco depicting the Saint in levitation is still preserved.
In 1956, the convent complex was acquired by the Milanese architect Tomaso Buzzi and, between 1958 and 1978, he planned and erected his own "Ideal City" conceived as a theatrical machine.
This city inclueds 7 different theatres and culminates in the upper part called Acropolis, a piled-up wealth of buildings comprising numerous archetypes, empty inside and provided with as many compartments as a termites' nest, that provides many surprising vistas.
An iniziatic relationship is thus estabilished between the Convent that rapresents the Sacred City and the theatres that stand for the profane one; both laden with symbols and screts, references and quotations.
The source of inspiration for this place and its building was Francesco Colonna's "Hypnerotomachia Polyphili" and the prevailing style is neo-mannerism: stairs used in all directions, the deliberate disproportion of some parts, a few monsters, the heaping together of building and monuments, amounting to surrealism, something of the labyrinth, something evocative, geometric, astronomic, magic.
But, apart for the place and its architecture, also the owner of this place, the nephew of the ancient architect will leave you stunned... but I don't want to spoil you the surprise.
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After the visit you can enjoy one of the most breathtaking views: you are surrounded by green hills and not far away from Scarzuole we found a little bar with a terrace and so we enjoyed our chopping board of cold cuts and cheeses ... delicious.
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