Palazzo San Benedetto

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Palazzo San Benedetto

Renovating our medieval palazzo in Abruzzo, Italy - Saving a cultural heritage monument

16/08/2025

Even though we've not moved in and the barn is not completed; no floor (just rough concrete), no heating, no electricity. If it is already so ideal for a teenage Ferragosto party, just imagine what it will be like when complete: sound system, lighting, projector and screen for cinema evenings, banqueting tables or maybe pool table and ping pong table, basketball nets, a floor for dancing and rollerskating for me! Oh gosh I can't wait!!!
Still a way to go and with no current funds, but we will make it happen! 💪

10/08/2025

It's been a while since we've updated you about any progress at our Italian Palazzo Renovation Project in San Benedetto in Perillis, Abruzzo, Italy but then again, progress has been pretty slow. We pop up there every now and then but for the last months most days we've gone up no builders have been there. It's frustrating when you get told they are going to do something over certain days and then you go and check on progress and nobody is there.

There have been holidays and absences of builders for personal reasons which amount to quite a few weeks that have been lost. So, therefore, our updates about the progress on the staircase in these photos is very exciting for us.

We have also uploaded a video to our channel and the link will be below in the comments.

27/07/2025

These photos popped up today on my personal Facebook as a '5 years ago' reminder. OMG 5 years ago, really? Look how cute and little the kids were. Now as teenagers they are not interested in moving to a small village and leaving their fantastic social lives behind in Popoli and Sulmona. Still, we are sure they will appreciate the palazzo when they are adults!

26/07/2025

No, not written this... yet!
But if we were going to write a book, this is what the title would be. Would you buy it?

We left the UK in 2018 with our children to renovate and move into our ancient palazzo in Abruzzo, Italy. Little did we know what a long, exhausting, and expensive rollercoaster ride of a renovation journey we were beginning.

Palazzo San Benedetto, the true story about our dream to restore our unique fortified cultural heritage palazzo damaged by the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake, just one year after having bought it.

With parts of the palazzo over 1200 years old, Palazzo San Benedetto is not a project for the faint hearted, nor those still learning Italian whilst also finding out how to deal with the national Italian bureaucracy as well as the local ‘Abruzzeaucracy’

If we had known what we know now, would we have done things differently?

03/07/2025

Quick update since the last post: Yes, the builders are back! 🥳 We popped up today to meet with the boss and discuss the helical staircase leading up to the 2 bedrooms of the Terrace Apartment.
Notice that the opening where the original staircase went out into the entrance/courtyard area has now been closed up... progress! 🥳🥳

30/06/2025

Why can't life just always be simple and easy! Here I am, waiting this morning for the builders to return from a huge long break since mid-May, to be precise.
When we gave up waiting, and after our visit to their office where I did lose my £%&@ a bit I have to confess, we were advised that they will be restarting tomorrow and not today as originally communicated. The delays, we were advised, have been due to unfortunate and unavoidable reasons, so it's good to know we have not been purposefully neglected for other larger and more important projects.
We are thankful to be working with such an excellent company with highky skilled workers so, all being well, they will now complete Step 1 of Phase 1 quickly and efficiently before they, and the rest of the country, down tools for the Italian summer holidays: Ferragosto where nothing gets done during the majority of the month of August.
With the original completion date of the contract being 4th May, please all pray for us that this won't extend beyond 4th August 🙏. At least the building company have, themselves, written a penalty clause into the contract where, for each day late, a financial forfeit is made. That shows the integrity of the company and whilst not a huge daily amount, it adds up and will help to pay towards the additional months' rent we will incur (which was not in our budget) until we can get the Terrace Apartment of our palazzo cleaned and ready to move in.
Watch this space!

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23/06/2025

Doesn't this just make you think " but why?" 🤔

It's always useful to think ahead and plan what you need in a room and precisely where. We always make sure when renovating that each bed side has at least 2 sockets (one for a lamp and one to charge your phone) as well as plenty of other sockets throughout the room in carefully planned positions.

So here we are in yet another hotel bedroom where we are struggling to agree on what to stick where 😉

Indirizzo

Via Castello, San Benedetto In Perillis
L'Aquila
67020

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https://www.palazzosanbenedetto.com/

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