Castello Di Reschio: From Farmhouse Ruins To Inventive Villas, An Umbrian Estate Comes Back To Life

Jul 10, 2019 489

BY: John Oseid

While massive economic and societal shifts were taking place up and down the Italian peninsula in the postwar era, rural folks headed to town—as any fan of Italian cinema knows from groundbreaking depictions by acclaimed directors of the displaced leading rough lives in crowded cities. And, while it’s hard to believe that tenant farming was still a practice then, countless farmers had no choice but to up and abandon their homes for the city.

Today, in a cloistered corner of Umbria, the Castello di Reschio farm estate is proof that, paradoxically, it is sometimes neglect that preserves. The immense costs to anyone—from owners to let alone poor farmers—to preserve vast estates even in the best of times can be too great. All around Reschio, that post-war flight from the country rendered ancient farmhouses, granaries, mills, cowsheds and fallow fields into the equivalent of agricultural ghost towns.

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SOURCE: https://www.forbes.com

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