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Villa Belvedere (Casa del Polacco) Ruins

Villa Belvedere (Casa del Polacco) Ruins

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Villa Belvedere (Casa del Polacco) Ruins

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Location: San Giuliano Terme, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy

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June 13, 2020

Villa Belvedere (Polish House)

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56017 San Giuliano Terme PI

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Visited 3 years ago

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Villa Belvedere, also known as Villa Bosniaski or villa of the Polish, was built in the year 1881, on the apical spur of Monte Castellare near San Giuliano
You can get there from Asciano and then go down to San Giuliano Terme along a Singletrack path through the vegetation

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Villa Belvedere, also known as Villa Bosniaski or Polish villa, was built in 1881, on the apical spur of Monte Castellare above San Giuliano Terme, near Pisa, by the Polish Sigismondo De Bosniaski and for his wife Elisa di Rulikowski, Russian countess. The villa is built on two floors plus the basement and has a rectangular plan. The building was composed of 12 rooms equally arranged on the three floors in total. In the basement De Bosniaski had set up a sort of private museum of the Carboniferous plant fossils he owned. The water supply was guaranteed by some cisterns that received rainwater from the gutters of the villa itself and by some pipes that took water from the terraces made of dry stone walls for agriculture.
To access the villa, a new road was built on the ridge of the mountain starting from Asciano in the locality of Asciano Valle. Another access is from the San Giuliano Terme side through a narrow path partially interrupted due to the limestone marble extraction quarries below.
The villa was abandoned following the death of De Bosniaski, after which it was used by the Germans in the Second World War as an observation post. Currently the villa is an uninhabitable ruin as the roof has collapsed together with part of the attics.
The villa is immersed in a garden of which the unusual floral species and fruit trees that still grow in the area surrounding the villa can still be seen today.
Source Wikipedia (it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Belvedere_(San_Giuliano_Terme)

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Elevation 230 m

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Location: San Giuliano Terme, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy

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Villa Belvedere (Casa del Polacco) Ruins

1. Campo di Croce Trail Junction – Santallago Plateau loop from Rigoli

2. Molina di Quosa Trails – Four Winds loop from Pisa Centrale

3. Ragnaia Trail – Scenic Riverside Path loop from Pisa Centrale

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