
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?