Renovations for maintenance purposes

Villa Le Fonti

LOC. MONTELORO
PONTASSIEVE, FLORENCE

RENOVATION AND FUNCTIONAL RESTORATION OF BUILDING 3 NAMED “VILLA LE FONTI” IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PONTASSIEVE – MONTELORO.
THE VILLA WAS FIRST DESCRIBED IN 1434 AS A “CHASAMENTO DASSIGNORE” BUT IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY THAT IT WAS TRANSFORMED ACCORDING TO THE DICTATES OF RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE. IN THE SIXTIES, FOLLOWING THE INDUSTRIAL BOOM AND THE CONSEQUENT ABANDONMENT OF THE COUNTRYSIDE, THE FARMHOUSES AND VILLA WERE PROGRESSIVELY LEFT DERELICT. AT THE END OF THE NINETIES, INTEREST IN THE AREA WAS RENEWED AND IT WAS SUBJECTED TO INTENSE RENOVATION WORK INVOLVING NOT
JUST THE ANCIENT BUILDINGS BUT ALSO THE SURROUNDING AREA AND THE CROPS CULTIVATED.