Sammezzano Castle in disrepair and in a state of semi-abandonment. Complaint filed with the Prosecutor's Office

Last week, a complaint was filed with the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Florence regarding the situation of degradation in which the Sammezzano Castle (located near Reggello, in the province of Florence), the surrounding park and the various outbuildings therein are in. Lesposto was advanced by Francesco Esposito, founder and spokesman of the civic movement Save Sammezzano.

Through the post, Prosecutor’s Office was made aware of Sammezzano’s situation of deterioration and semi-abandonment, despite the fact that the latter is subject to the Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape, which requires its protection and preservation. The judiciary is also asked to intervene precisely in order to ensure compliance with Legislative Decree No. 42 of January 22, 2004 Code of Cultural and Landscape Heritage, and thus ensure the state of protection that the law prescribes for Sammezzano.

The protagonist of a first-of-its-kind awareness campaign undertaken by the Save Sammezzano Civic Movement, the Sammezzano complex has become one of our country’s most beloved and discussed cultural assets nationwide: winner of the Eighth Census I Luoghi del Cuore promoted by FAI and Intesa Sanpaolo, the only Italian site included in the list of the 12 most endangered European cultural assets according to Europa Nostra (the pan-European federation for cultural heritage), the subject of ten parliamentary questions and a regional motion passed in May 2016, a media phenomenon with allactive more than 450 newspaper and radio and television reports and it inherent and the object of the attention of hundreds of thousands of citizens who support its recovery via social networks and through petitions dedicated to it.

“To the detriment of what has been done so far under the civil, institutional and media profile,” the statement of the Save Sammezzano movement specifies, “the structural situation of Sammezzano has continued to worsen day by day. Turning to the Public Prosecutor’s Office was therefore an obligatory step so that the safeguarding of Sammezzano is finally guaranteed and thus the application of the law that protects it is ensured.”

Pictured, the Hall of the Lilies at Sammezzano Castle (from Save Sammezzano website)

Sammezzano Castle in disrepair and in a state of semi-abandonment. Complaint filed with the Prosecutor's Office

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