Tenuta Quarrata Tourist Residence Hotel

Part of the house used as a residence

Brief History

Tenuta Quarrata and 'a home dating to the period end 1700 is located on a hill adjacent to the small town of Belvedere in the town of St. Peter Pisa.La property is surrounded by a park and several acres of land are cultivated with olivi.La villa and the house formerly represented a rural structure, completed in time with the expansion of the villa and the construction of chiesa.La underground cellar dating back to Etruscan times, making it likely that during this period were excavated from the tombs of the Etruscan civilization, then expanded over the years to be used during the rural as a repository for wine and oil, having the ideal climatic conditions for the maintenance of these products.

Villa San Giorgio main entrance

Villa S. George takes its name from 'ancient parish church, built almost certainly Lombard era (year 980), as was customary then dedicate the church to St. Michael and St. George, the holy struggle. The ruins of the foundations' s ancient parish church were found decades ago in making a break and allowed him to locate it directly behind the existing house and explained to the particle 120, sheet 13 of the new cadastre of the town of Capannoli.Il Quarrata name comes from the Romanesque period and indicates military camp in a wooded area.

Little Church placed in front of the villa

Little Church of the Immaculate Conception

blocks are wedged in the seat next to the villa with a facade in front of it.
It was built in 1872 by the noble Cav. Joseph Vincenti then owner, to the right of the door where he remembered there was a plaque from a wedding 'Em.mo Pietro Maffi, Archbishop Pisano, primate of Corsica and Sardinia, Cardinal DSRC, on 30 April of 1916 between the Borgo Pio Netolitzky with Margaret Montecuccoli, inside there were three large paintings depicting biblical frames encased in plaster in the wall, on the altar there was a golden statue of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception.

Cardinal Maffi, to commemorate the celebration of the Mass given a handwritten letter, which in 1947 was still on display in the chapel, who says seven Hail Mary the Virgin 200 days of indulgence.
After the passage of the second war began slowly decay 's entire structure, alternating succession for many families, causing the total collapse of the' whole farm.
The Church subiscie serious damage to the structure with the collapse of the roof, is abandoned to itself, and has been to steal the sacred works: the Madonna placed on the 'altar was brought in the parish of Holy Pietro.Da testimonies gathered, the Madonna dell 'Immaculate Conception returns almomento when the Church will again be restored.

Central part of the house used as a residence

The Housing

The entire complex was acquired in 1992 by the family Salvadori, begins a carefully renovated respecting the 'original architecture, materials used for bio-architecture, such as stone, brick, mortar and wood, thus starting a tourism activity.