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   VILLA ROSSI MATTEI AND HISTORY

 

 Villa Rossi Mattei  extends for around 10 hectares of woods and cultivated terraces to olive-grove, on the hill of Castelsecco, zone Etruscan, anciently city Necropolis. The centre of Arezzo is distant only 2 km, reachable  also on foot. It is surrounded by a historical  park, with Atlantic cedars, pines, lecci and secular cypresses, in the centre of the garden is found an ancient greenhouse of particular triangular form.   The villa has served from a swimming pool (7x14m) located  in the green of the hill next door the Villa, with a marvellous view of the city centre. The villa offers 7 apartments for rent of various typologies, well furnished, proper for the single traveller, to families, up to a group of Max 30 people. It is the ideal place for receptions, events, party; thanks to the immense Italian style garden well taken care of, an ample room, and to the owners, brothers Masieri and the staff, they will take care of all your request during your holiday in Tuscany. For the one who loves to make excursions in the cities of art, the villa is a strategic point to visit city as: Siena (55km), Firenze(60km), Perugia (70km), Pienza (60km),  Montalcino(50km), Chianti(40km), Pisa (130km).

HISTORICAL SIGNS 

Ex convent of the monks Cappuccini in the 1600,nel XVII sec. The Villa was restored by some owners, as long as in 1860 It was purchased by Silvestreo Nencini, from Monsummano Terme (PISTOIA) that he married Teresa Benvenuti nephew of Pietro Benvenuti, famous painter from  neoclassicism period  “Renovator of the pictorial art in Tuscany”; Manager in Florence of the arts academy.     

                                     Silvestro Nencini, had 2 children Ermenegildo and Isabella. Ermenegildo died in 1900th, and the villa passed in inheritance to Isabella, After few years she married Giovanni Rossi Mattei, they had 3 children Assunta, Fausta (died young)e Antonio, that he inherited the villa. Antonio Rossi  Mattei  had then 2 children Ermenegildo and Antoinette, Ermenegildo married Liliana Fornasari in 1945 and it had 1 daughter name Dora Rossi Mattei, the actual owner of the Villa. She got married In the 1972 She got married with the  doctor Lorenzo Masieri, from which it had Liliana and Dante.  

The coat of arms: The name of the family Rossi it is represented by a narrow mountain of 6 gold tops, with a swallow and accompanied in stung by an increasing silver uppercut. The name Mattei it is represented by an eagle crowned of black and for half   3 files blue and silver.  The surname Rossi Matte its  originates from Rossi, Nobile lineage  from the 1664, in 1878 it became Rossi Mattei thanks to an uncle Sebastiano Mattei, manager of the Bank Tuscany, that he adopted his nephew Giovanni Rossi, to which it gave his last name Mattei with regal decree of the king OF Italy Vittorio Emanuele II

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Relais di Arezzo Villa Rossi Mattei v. di Castelsecco 11 , 52100 Arezzo Italy. Holiday appartaments in Tuscany.  Tel. 0039-05751821115 - Fax 0039-05751821115   Mobile +39-3494675488 /3383934921                         mail: info@villarossimattei.com -lilianamasieri@hotmail.com