Villa Mirabella, Neoclassical villa in Gabbro, Italy
Villa Mirabella stands east of Gabbro in a large green plot, with a neo-Gothic tower built for Marquis De Ghantuz Cubbe at its edge. The abandoned villa retains the remains of a double staircase, above which a Baroque-style pediment rises. Inside, traces of wall paintings and a chapel survive.
In 1738 Giovan Pietro Finocchietti, son of Jacopo, bought land on the Gabbro hills to build a country residence for the Finocchietti family, merchants from Annecy established in Livorno; the villa was completed in 1761. In 1918 it housed a lazaretto during a yellow fever epidemic. Donated to the Comune of Rosignano Marittimo on 17 January 1984.
Inside Villa Mirabella, traces of wall paintings survive and a chapel remains, the only interior features the sources record. The building has stood abandoned for decades, so these fragments are what a visitor can still make out of the Finocchietti family's country residence, completed in 1761.
The building is in a deteriorated state and not open to the public, but can be viewed from outside. The location is in a rural area of Gabbro and a car is recommended for convenient access.
Only one neo-Gothic tower stands at the edge of the green plot, built at the wish of Marquis Vittorio De Ghantuz Cubbe after he acquired the villa in 1886. The building itself keeps the remains of a double staircase, with a Baroque pediment set above it.
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