Some views of Rocchetta Mattei, an eclectic and eccentric XIX century small fortress on the hil

Some views of Rocchetta Mattei, an eclectic and eccentric XIX century small fortress on the hil
Some views of Rocchetta Mattei, an eclectic and eccentric XIX century small fortress on the hil
Some views of Rocchetta Mattei, an eclectic and eccentric XIX century small fortress on the hil
Some views of Rocchetta Mattei, an eclectic and eccentric XIX century small fortress on the hil

Some views of Rocchetta Mattei, an eclectic and eccentric XIX century small fortress on the hills near Bologna, Italy.

Basically, the owner (count Mattei, who is even mentioned by Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov) decided to put together in this building every single architectural style he had ever admired, from European Middle Age to Liberty to Moorish, and if this isn’t a mood I don’t what is.

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