Perhaps visits to the Scarzuola, Buzzi's bizarre ideal city, will end

The hours are perhaps numbered for visits to the Scarzuola, the bizarre ideal city designed and built between 1958 and 1978 by architect Tommaso Buzzi (Sondrio, 1900 - Rapallo, 1981) near Montegabbione in Umbria. It is an extraordinary complex that also includes an ancient part, the part with the convent that would have been founded on the site where St. Francis built a hut: to this Buzzi added the modern part in which the unusual and surreal settings and aspects predominate.

In fact, the current owner, Marco Solari, announced to ANSA that guided tours will be closed, at least in the form in which they have been conducted so far. “The tour itself,” Solari explained, “has now had its day. Maybe there will be a different tour in the future that will be according to the new situation of artificial intelligence where everything is frequency.” Therefore, it is not known whether the public will be able to visit the complex in the near future. “This place,” Solari said, “is in constant becoming and is not static at all, and if disorder and imagination dominates the buzz part, I at all times have to create disorder and imagination, and so I think in the future the most that will represent it will be music.”

Pictured: view of the Scarzuola. Ph. Credit.

Perhaps visits to the Scarzuola, Buzzi's bizarre ideal city, will end

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