In the forest of the Massa Martana perched on a hillside, is a glorious site. For there, on a hilltop stands, the medieval town of Macerino.
Forming the south wall of this Historic little town stands the grand Palazzo Massarucci.
The Massarucci family built their palatial house on the foundation of a Medieval Fortress on a peak overlooking the valleys of Terni, Spoleto and Acquasparta in 1500.
During that period. When the entire area was part of the Papal States, travel from Rome to Spoleto along the Via Flaminia was often fraught with dangers and difficulties, so alternate roads were created.
Palazzo Massarucci was built along one of these routes and it soon became a fortressed locanda, offering food, shelter and fodder and stables for horses.
By 1580, the tiny village of Macerino was important enough to be included on the large frescoed map of Umbrium in the Vatican Museum. This can still be observed today.
The Palazzo Massarucci then passed from the Maccarucci family to the Catholic Church in the early 17th Century and for 200 hundred years was the seat of the Vicar of Umbria.
It was purchases by a local land-owning family in the early 20th Century and later purchased by Anne Mahler, the sculptress, who was the daughter of Gustav Mahler, the composer.
In 1989 it changed hands again and was beautifully restored by Laura Burke. In 2013 the Palazzo was purchased by the Pilcher family, who are looking forward, to the responsibility of loving and caring for this historic property.
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