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The "Scarzuola"
It seems that in 1218 S. Francesco d’Assisi lived here in a hut made of
scarsa ( a palustrine plant from which derives the name Scarzuola).
Today the Scarzuola is a charming place that has been transformed by the
Architect Tommaso Buzzi from Milan , who bought the convent in 1957 in
order to build his “ideal city”.
The Buzziana semms just a profane city, full of references and citations,
mottos engraved everywhere, maxims, monograms and indecipherable symbols.
It is composed by a bundle of buildings and monuments that seems miraculous:
circular buildings like Arabic astronomical observatories, zoomorphic
buildings, tebaidi and places of meditation, pagan temples and the crystal
tower, that it seems the pinnacle of a Gothic cathedral.
When he died, in the 80s , Tomaso Buzzi left its stone creation incomplete,
expressesing the desire to leave it to nature (to be devoured or transformed
into a bundle of wonderful ruins worthy of the art of Clerisseau).
But the Buzziana did not disappear and today has became a labyrinth of
the soul, a building that overcomes the rules of our dimension and creating
other ones.
