Keeping Quarrata Tourist Hotel Residence

Part of the house used as a residence

Historical notes

Keeping Quarrata and 'a residence dating from the end of 1700 stands on a hill adjacent to the small village of Santo Pietro Belvedere in the province of Pisa.La property is surrounded by a park and several hectares of land planted with olivi.La manor house and the ancient times were a rural farmhouse, completed in time with the expansion of the villa and the construction of the underground cellar dating back to chiesa.La Etruscan period, is to assume that in that period were excavated from the tombs of the Etruscan civilization, then expanded over the years to be used for storage during the rural wine and oil, having the ideal climatic conditions for the maintenance of these products.

Villa San Giorgio main entrance

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

The small church situated in front of the villa

The small Church of the Immaculate Conception

wedges placed in the blocks next to the house with a facade in front of it.
It was built in 1872 by Noble Knight. Joseph Vincenti then owner, the right of the door was a plaque where he remembered a wedding from 'Em.mo Pietro Maffi, Archbishop Pisano, Primate of Corsica and Sardinia, Cardinal DSRC, 30 April 1916 the year of the Borgo Pio Netolitzky Margherita Montecuccoli, inside there were three large canvases in the biblical stucco frames embedded in the wall, on the small altar there was a golden statue of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception.

The Cardinal Maffi, to commemorate the celebration of Mass granted an Autograph Letter, which in 1947 was still exposed in the chapel, who plays seven Hail Mary the Virgin 200 days of indulgence.
After the passage of the War, began to slowly decline of the 'whole structure, alternating succession for several families, causing total disruption of the' whole farm.
The Church subiscie serious damage to the structure with the collapse of the roof, is abandoned to itself, and was the subject of theft of sacred works: the Madonna placed on the 'altar was brought into the parish of Holy Pietro.Da testimonies, Our Lady of 'Immaculate Conception almomento returns when the Church will be restored.

Central part of the house used as a residence

The resort

The entire complex was bought in 1992 by the Salvadori family, began a careful restoration, in respect of 'original architectural features, materials used for bio-architecture, such as stone, brick, mortar and wood, thus starting a tourist activity.