Casale Chiarizia

This is a rural compound, a straggle of buildings anchored by a rectangular main house that faces east. The core structure, with its hipped roof, rises two storeys around a central entrance hall. The hall’s stone round arch is topped by a small balcony of baroque ironwork, which bears a municipal coat of arms: three pine trees. Inside, cross-vaults cover the atrium and adjacent rooms; the ground floor is paved in rectangular stone slabs. A straight staircase leads from the hall up to the living quarters. This was a working farmhouse, and the ground floor was given over to kitchens, cellars, stables and storage, while the upper floor held further kitchens, bedrooms, and a hayloft. It is a plain, practical piece of architecture, its only flourish the balcony and its arboreal emblem, a modest statement of local identity on an otherwise functional building.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.