Palazzo Parisi presides over Oliveto, a village that dates from at least the 11th century, and it is a fully-functioning feudal affair.
In the foothills of the Apennine Mountains, north of Rome, the palazzo is the childhood home of the Anglo-Italian garden designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd, whose Scottish nanny used to deliver babies in the village while her mother, Signora Parisi, made sure that everyone was all right. “It’s very much my mother’s place,” says Lady Lennox-Boyd. “She was a kind of icon here.
I get lovely old ladies coming up to me and bursting into tears, in memory of her.”Now, the “huge” house is rented out during the summer holidays (until the end of October).
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