The fruit of my research on historic homes in Riccione, was partly raised in the book "A Season of Liberty Riccione " published by Publisher Maggs (Santarcangelo 2010) and on the web portal www.RiccioneinVilla. it (sponsored by the Province of Rimini and the Cultural Heritage Association Onlus Venice).
The project involved the President of the Province of Rimini, Stafano Vitali at the presentation of the book and the website took place July 23 at the Piazzale Ceccarini, awarded me a certificate of merit. I am convinced that the publication of this volume will lead us to rediscover our cultural roots, to re-evaluate a historical period of great importance for the city, still unknown. From the villa
Antolini I plan to go to tell you about the villa Pullè accounts. Although the book reserve a special place in Villa Antolini, has devoted a space to house accounts Pullè because is a fine example of a historic house that the owners have managed to maintain and enhance. So attention to this villa will also be a tribute to the heirs not only lucky but also aware of the valuable asset they received. It is located on a site upstream of the railroad, in an area where, at that time, the buildings were few and far between: the town being concentrated on the Via Flaminia.
The villa was built in the period 1895 to 1900: it appears in mappacatastale of 1901, but not the previous one (dated 1885); also secondole evidence of the current owners and descendants of the family, was designed by Francesco Azzurri, who died in 1895. The house, like many of the same period, shall conform to the eclectic style in vogue at merging with the traits of the more academic Liberty. It is said that Villa Pullè should borrow from the Town Hall of San Marino, built by the same architect and was completed in 1894. In seaside towns are often houses of this type, with a central building and a tower, the patrons of the time they felt free to choose the style they preferred and were commissioned to a building of Gothic inspiration, or Eastern Roman (or even all three styles mixed freely). Villa Pull, in particular, seems to combine the Gothic with the Neoclassical: If the turret is inspired by the medieval entrance to the staircase and the porch have a classical linearity.
Classics are also the capitals of the columns with volutes vaguely reminiscent of the Corinthian style.
To handle the front and back of the house there are many blind arches, perhaps buffered in time, decorated with ornaments as well as windows. Within the prevailing neo-Gothic furnishings also still preserved by descendants, but the pattern of classical columns is reflected in the marble staircase inside. The ceiling of the hall is decorated with a romantic medieval frieze, which depicts the main reason the family crest under a helmet. In another room we find a completely different frieze, neo-Renaissance style, with dancing cherubs and garlands of flowers in bas-relief. The garden was designed by Louis Cicchetti who realized in the form of a large park lush with many species of trees, a fountain, two large aviaries with exotic birds, making the romantic idea of \u200b\u200bthe garden, almost a return to nature, but within boundaries reassuring.
lived in the park free pheasants, peacocks, turtles and some geese of the Capitol, a gift of a woman Rachele.Sul gate, now no longer exists, the heraldic symbol of the family stood out: a rooster. But we can still see it on the railing. The young professor Pullè Carlo Felice, a descendant of the noble house of the Counts of Flanders and of the ancient original Pullè split into several branches from the religious struggles of the '500, he moved from Modena to Riccione is to exercise his medical profession, and to allow their wives Fanny Ricci to live in a healthier place. Many people were in fact already in Riccione for treatments with the bath water, in addition to the aforementioned scrofulous children, and Pull was an expert in tropical diseases.
The villa became a reference point for high society in Riccione, especially during the summer season, when they came to the noble and middle-class homes all over Italy. From there they passed in times different famous people such as the Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss, Giovanna of Savoy (daughter of Vittorio Emanuele III and Queen Elena), the Swedish doctor and writer Axel Munthe, the king of Afghanistan Aman Ullah, in exile after the war.
Colleagues and friends of the''pioneer''Felice Pull favorably impressionatida Riccione, were tempted to stay there. Some of them bought existing houses, others built new near Villa Pull. The area in which they were built has the distinction of being the ancient cliff, on the border between the sandy and clay soil, where until 1835 the line reached of coastline. These buildings, although they were built in the same period, from customers who came from the same area and that they even knew each other, are stylistically very different from each other: this is explained, as mentioned above, with the eclectic fashion of 'era. In fact, next to the villa Pull, externally rather simple and classical, are the villas Monti, Santi Fonoro and presenting the most elaborate decorations and pastel colors. The first
also now known as Villa Lodi Fè recalls the origins of the noble family, who seems to want to reconnect to a past of chivalry which has lost track: it is shown by the decorations in medieval-like, the shape of the building, which resembles a miniature castle and heraldic references. The other two instead of wealthy bourgeois villas are on vacation: the shapes and colors are less austere, the decorations are more evident and affect the entire building. The element that unites the three villas is the green that surrounds the parks, all designed by Lodovico Cicchetti, were neighbors, similar to each other and separated them only small gates in the Pullè had the keys. In the early 80s the Municipality, with unmotivated emergency procedure, Monti dispossessed the house with its garden and the gardens of Villa Santi Pullè and cottage, to create a public park in favor of citizenship. In fact, the park officially called "Central", but known as "the Magnolia" from the name of the avenue facing it, poured for about 20 years in a state of neglect, but which retained the appearance of lush gardens originating. Today, the three gardens are a unique public park, named after Pope John Paul II, opened in summer 2007.
recent work, made with the intention of making the park more pleasant and accessible, have thinned out the green, not necessarily only by breaking down diseased trees but also shrubs of laurel and privet, and finished to remove all traces of history, each element that recalls the atmosphere of these gardens, producing a fake. It 'was in fact created, even with some attention to detail, a typical nineteenth-century public park, complete with driveways, lampposts and a statue of celebration, in which case of Pope John Paul II, without taking into account the fact that this place is not never been that kind of structure.
Adapted from A. Speziali,''A Season of Liberty Riccione '', Ed Maggs, 2010 Santarcangelo
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