Villa Francesconi Navelli Aquila

VILLA FRANCESCONI NAVELLI AQUILA

Villa Francesconi built in 1752 by Filippi, famous architect Aquilano and academician of St. Luke, was commissioned by Baron Giovanni Francesconi for Marianna daughter who married a notable landowner Aquilano, Casimiro Giampietri.

The Palace is definitely the biggest and most valuable collection in the Baronial Palace. And 'it situated on the plain near Piazza San Pelino in the San Rocco.

The interior is vaulted and there are precious paintings of Bergami and Amedeo Tedeschi, known painter and pupil of the illustrious Abruzzese Teofilo Patini. Very valuable is the monumental staircase leading to the main floor where the family chapel of the palace is located. The inner courtyard was remodeled in the second half of the nineteenth century and has at its center a precious stone well.

The house is surrounded by a lovely park where there is a large and long avenue of lime trees and many kinds of plants including horse chestnut trees, boxwood and pine trees. Valuable facade decorations including the monumental cornice and the main window that 'the courtyard where are carved the names of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

Above the large door to the courtyard there is placed the coat of arms of the lineage Francesconi reproduced in a beautiful bas relief.

The villa boasts five entrances with wrought iron gates that bear the initials of Francesconi who had them built. In ancient times (the second half of 1700 to the second half of 1800) the real kingdom of Naples when they went to Abruzzo to control their possessions were staying in that house when you change horses at the post Taverna located not far from there.

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