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Villa Cetinale

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Villa Cetinale
Centinale, Sovicille



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The villa was built between 1676 and 1678 by Cardinal Flavio Chigi, designed by the architect Carlo Fontana. This was never a place of representation but the residence where the Chigi withdrew for short periods of rest. The construction of this building s can be summarized into three stages: the first is the building of the house, its outbuildings and the formal garden and the second to the creation of the park of the Thebaid and the third to the construction of the hermitage. Cardinal Flavio Chigi left Cetinale grandchildren, who kept it for three centuries until 1977 when it was bought by British MP Lord Antony Lambton, who conducted a careful restoration, bringing Cetinale former glory. The building is rectangular in plan, spread over three floors. The main façade is essentially characterized by the elaborate double staircase that ends with the great central portal in marble on the first floor. This is framed by two columns buckled and crowned by a triangular pediment above which shows the coat of arms of the Chigi. The rear elevation is composed of two lateral structure protruding. This is a hole in the ground floor of three arches surmounted by a false portico with stone balustrade. All the windows and the arches of the arcades are framed by brick, contrasting with rusticated stone that mark the corners of the building. Large family crests decorate each opening on the first floor.

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