La Scarzuola is an architectural complex in Umbria, located in Montegiove hamlet in the comune of Montegabbione, Terni Province, Italy. This was the land of St. Francis of Assisi and it is believed that the Saint himself planted a laurel and a rose here in 1218. Miraculously, water gushed forth from a bare rock near where he had planted them and the site of Montegiove became a place of worship. La Scarzuola was partially abandoned in the 19th Century.

La Scarzuola was originally the site of a 13th Century convent associated with St. Francis of Assisi

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Things really get interesting in the 1950s when a well-known Milanese architect named Tomaso Buzzi purchased the property. His plan was to build the ?Ideal City? (la Città Ideale) which would juxtapose with the monastery: the holy and the profane. Buzzi was extremely well-studied in art and humanities and constructed his Ideal City in seven overlapping theaters all culminating at the acropolis.
Buzzi’s plan was to build the ?Ideal City? which would juxtapose with the monastery

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