The present-day building is the result of the extension of a small villa built around 1786 by Bartolomeo Bacher, Bishop of Ripatransone, a keen agronomist who expanded orange cultivation in Grottammare. The extension was carried out by the Marquises of Laureati, an ancient family from the Marche region who purchased the property from the elderly bishop in 1807 and remain its owners to this day. <\/p>\n\n
Like, and even more so than, the other historic buildings overlooking what was once the Via Lauretana \u2013 now the busy Strada Statale Adriatica \u2013 the villa today has a different character from its original one, as it has been surrounded by more recent buildings that have altered the setting in which it was originally built. Nevertheless, and despite the nineteenth-century extension mentioned earlier, the influence of the first owner has by no means faded: the marked simplicity of Palazzo Laureati\u2019s architectural structure stems from Bacher\u2019s austere taste \u2013 the same simplicity found, for example, in another building commissioned in Grottammare by the bishop-agronomist, the Church of St John the Baptist. <\/p>\n\n
Spanning three storeys, the building\u2019s main body is flanked by two wings that were once used as stables; these enclose a garden with palm trees and citrus trees, onto which spacious terraces open.<\/p>\n\n
The fa\u00e7ade is clad in brick and framed by travertine corner rustication; the string courses, window reveals and pilasters \u2013 all made of the same material \u2013 divide the fa\u00e7ade into three sections. The villa is crowned by a square roof terrace with two windows on each side, which echo the decorative motifs of the main body of the building. <\/p>\n\n
In 1860, Marquis Marino Laureati hosted Vittorio Emanuele II \u2013 who was soon to become the first King of Italy \u2013 at the villa; the king received the Neapolitan delegation, which had come to urge the annexation of Naples, in the reception hall. A plaque erected in 1882 on the southern side of the villa commemorates this event, which was also celebrated 50 years later by the Monument commemorating the annexation of Naples,<\/em> situated in the Ricciotti Pine Forest. As if to bring things full circle, in 1925 the palace also hosted the man who would become Italy\u2019s last sovereign, the \u2018King of May\u2019 Umberto II, then Prince of Naples. <\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6543,"template":"","tipologia-luoghi":[113],"class_list":["post-6542","luoghi","type-luoghi","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipologia-luoghi-historic-buildings"],"bee_custom_fields":{"intro":"","address":"","stelle":"","gallery":[],"immagine_in_evidenza":"https:\/\/www.visitgrottammare.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Villa-Laureati-2.jpg","fisso":"","mobile":"","fax":"","latitudine":"","longitudine":"","sitoweb":"","email":"","facebook":"","instagram":"","youtube":"","orari":"","audioguida":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitgrottammare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/luoghi\/6542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitgrottammare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/luoghi"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitgrottammare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/luoghi"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitgrottammare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitgrottammare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tipologia-luoghi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitgrottammare.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipologia-luoghi?post=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} <\/h2>\n\n