Casa Strenna

English translation

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History

Inspired by the neo-classical models of Tuscan villas, the house of Mathieu Strenna, who left for Alabama, is characteristic of ostentatious and decorative architecture. The house, raised on three levels, presents ordered façades, decorated and surmounted by a storey of roof space with attic. A basement storey corresponding to the change in level of the terrain on the north side, houses former cellars. The plan is square and presents strong similarities with the plan of the Palazzu Nicrosi at Rogliano, whose patron was a friend of Mathieu Strenna. The architect is probably the same. Inside, on either side of a vestibule, are arranged drawing rooms or bedrooms, sometimes en enfilade. A flight of stairs with returns on returns leads to the roof space. The garden is laid out along the entrance façade, to the east, around a basin ornamented with a bronze cherub. It possessed below a rose garden composed of a metal pergola. The entire house possesses painted ceiling and wall decorations, attributed to Paul Baptiste Profizzi. Vestiges of choir stalls are still visible.