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near Rome, enclosed in the Maccarese countryside, the San Giorgio of Maccarese castle, originally built on the former Casetta Mattei, dates back to 1700. Over the centuries, it has belonged to several noble families: Alberteschi, Anguillara, Mattei, Pallavicini and Rospigliosi.

Owned by the Benetton Group, it is a prestigious site, enriched by a Church linked to the castle by Italian Gardens.

Of absolute importance there is the spacious spiral staircase, allowing access to the inside, the music hall, the tower, the garden on whose background stands the little church of the Sisters, which remains untouched in its contours in its original configuration, the entrance hall, internal stairs, all revived by paintings, commemorative tables and marble vestiges.

Entering the Castle, the Hall of Music is the first environment you will meet. In fact, the hall, known in the past as the Landscape Gallery, is decorated by a series of 23 tempered painted canvases with hunting scenes.

The series consists of 9 overlapping ovals with Maccarese views, 10 paintings with bucolic pasture or horse track scenes, and finally 4 larger canvases than hunting scenes.

Continuing the tour there is the Presidential Hall, in the northwestern area of the noble floor, which is now destined for the celebration of civil marriages.

The room that once housed portraits and effigies of religious character finds its basic element in the small private chapel, entirely decorated with frescoes on architectural scores, featuring a marble altar and a golden and damask red canopy of purple red silk. Originally, it featured a small altarpiece depicting Saint George killing the Dragon.

By climbing the helix scale towards the noble floor, you will enter the Room of the Coat, on which stands the large coat of arms painted to celebrate the glory of the house.

It is surmounted by the crown of the Rospigliosi princes and is supported by two winged victories: one celebrates the magnitude of the house in the act of playing the trumpet, the other indicates the coat of arms looking directly at the spectator, as indicating the belonging to the palace in which has just entered the princely family.

The Italian garden, with in the center a beautiful circular fountain from which an ordered system of meadows marked by Mediterranean essences disentangle, is rich in large palm trees and various species of ornamental plants.

In the vicinity of the garden it extends a small pine forest made up of over 50 marine pines, which shadows in this remote corner of the park and ends with an ancient portal where once there was a racecourse.

Such a fascinating reality constitutes the ideal environment for congresses, weddings, events, meetings and conventions, to be organized, in addition to the indoor halls (capacity up to 250 people), also in the large outdoor garden (capacity about 800 people).

I also visited Maccarese Farm, born in the 1930s, purchased and restructured in 1998 by the Benetton Group.
Currently the company consists of 3.200 hectares flat and, for its size, it is the first place in Italy. The crops cultivated on the farm are arable ones, fodder and vegetables.
It houses the largest domestic dairy cattle breeding (3,300 heads) and meat veals.

Its location is absolutely strategic: 5 minutes from the exit of the highway, direction Civitavecchia (exit Fregene/Maccarese); about 10 minutes from the Aurelia crossroads direction Fregene/Maccarese, only 20 km from Rome and 15 minutes from the International Airport Leonardo da Vinci in Fiumicino.

Address:
Viale Maria, 1 - 00057 Località Maccarese - Fiumicino – Roma

E-mail:
info@ilcastellodisangiorgio.it

Thank you for reading!

Guenda