In adulthood, Raffaele Paolucci decided to buy a personal home in his family’s village to which he was always linked. This big house was situated in Orsogna (Via Torre Pellegrina), and it also had a large garden.
After his death, the one who inherited this house sold it to the municipality of Orsogna, that transformed it in a rest home. This rest home is called “La casa del sole” (“The house of the sun”), it was inaugurated at the end of 1996, and nowadays it can host 60 aged people.
The entry of this rest house conserves the same structure of Paolucci’s house.
The element that proves with certainty that this one was Paolucci’s house is a sundial on the principal façade: in fact on its top there is his noble emblem, a ship that simbolizes the one he sank (Viribus Unitis), the same that can be found on the colored window of Raffaele Paolucci’s tomb.
Finally, the garden that surrounded the house today is a park, called “Parco Paolucci” (“Paolucci park”).
Paolucci park
- Photos and main text by Salvatore De Pasquale and Jacopo Capparelli (January 2018)
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