Tenuta Quarrata Tourist Hotel Residence

Part of the house used as a residence

Historical notes

Tenuta Quarrata and 'a house dating back to the period end 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 chiesa.La underground cellar dating from the Etruscan period, is to assume that at that time were graves dug by the Etruscan civilization, then expanded over the years to be used in rural as storage period 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 church, built in the era almost certainly Lombard (year 980), as was customary then to dedicate the church to Saint Michael and Saint George, the holy struggle. The ruins of the foundations of 'ancient church were found decades ago in making a break and allowed to locate just behind the villa today, namely the particle 120, 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 located in front of the villa

The small Church of the Immaculate Conception

is wedged in the blocks placed next to the house with a facade in front of it.
It was built in 1872 by the 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, April 30 by the year 1916 in Borgo Pio Netolitzky with Margaret Montecuccoli, inside there were three large canvases in the biblical embedded in stucco frames in the wall, on the altar there was a small 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 slowly declining years of the 'whole 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 the subject of trafugamenti of sacred works: the Madonna placed on 'altar was brought in the parish of Holy Pietro.Da testimonies gathered, the Madonna of '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 bought in 1992 by the Salvadori family, began a careful restoration, in respect of 'original architecture, materials used for bio-architecture, such as stone, brick, mortar and wood, thus starting a tourist business.