I Il Messaggero - Thursday 29 March 2001

Ended the restoration: some destined rooms to museum

Lawrence house becomes farm holidays

Stefano de Angelis

To Picinisco the house where in the 1919 lived the famous English writer David Herbert Lawrence, will come used as structures receptive for the activity of farm holidays.

After strong earthquake of the 1984 that struck the Comino Valley was not visitabile because unfit for use. Now its conservative restoration, cost about 300 millions, financed in departs from the owners, given and Carmine Pacitti, and from the Lazio region is practically tto guess and perfectly successful.

Not all the stable, of eight rooms and carried out on two levels, will be turned to farm holidays. to the first plan, in two vain, had prepared a museum with used objects from the writer more the library.

In a third, instead, will be serve lunch and dines. To the second floor have been realized four rooms from matrimonial bed.

The decay places to Lawrence (house and garden), so, they will be able be relived. The owners confide to open structures to entertains to the maximum among a month, after completing the necessary retouch to the operation.

The owners, in fact, have intention to verify the tourist impact and analyse the perspectives of the activity.

The historical house was not live only from Lawrence , but together with the surrounding environment became even protagonist of his famous novel, "the lost girl", published in the 1920.

The zone is from many years destination of Italian and foreign literature students.

In diverged place of Europe , in fact, there are centers where you can study the novel of Lawrence, reserved one of the more famous of the writers of the twentieth century.

The headmaster Gerardo Vacana, researcher of Lawrence and environmental, approves such initiative "I am in favour of the use of the stable, provided is even an open cultural place to the researchers of Lawrence to him impassioned of literature, I wish that in future the place becomes a center studies stamened of Lawrence, a vast library that contains a harvest of the works of the writer.

Even in Switzerland a live house from Rosseau has been changed in departs in restaurant, while other rooms are in disposition of the visitors and of the researchers of the famous thinker".

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