The farmhouse dating back to the late 1700s, according to the villagers' stories, was used as a convent, a sort of testimony to this is the human skull that was found during the renovations. According to Gino Fornaciari (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Fornaciari) the cardinal points found on the skullcap at the bone intersections would have served to study the skull itself. Also, to corroborate the aforementioned thesis, the skull itself would have represented, put on display on the desk, the transience of life.



It passed ownership in the following decades, the farmhouse was inhabited by wealthy people, who had taken up the current house earth as their home, while the servants they used lived on the upper floor, the current house sky: the houses were connected by old openings then closed over time. Where the stone house and the nest house now stand were the old stables for oxen and cows. In fact, Boveglio was a possession of the Roman Elia family who raised cattle there, hence the name Boveglio (Bove-Elia).



The main economy referred to agriculture and work in the woods with the harvest of chestnuts. The flourishing period lasted for a long time, then the farmhouse and Boveglio himself experienced decades of anonymity, until the end of the Second World War, when the house was seized and used as a headquarters by the Nazi-fascists given its peculiar position. strategic dominant over the valley and being on the Gothic defensive line (https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linea_Gotica). deeper and deeper wrinkles that the mansion brought with it until the end of the last millennium when two intrepid young people with ten-year and meticulous work restored this beautiful property to its old splendor.


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