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SF Collection is located in Via Masarotte, near the Villa dei Conti Trento, better known as Villa Trento, it is a Venetian villa located in Dolegnano, in the Municipality of San Giovanni al Natisone (UD). The family of the Trento counts in the eighteenth century acquired the fiefdom of the Masarotte di Dolegano, in which the villa was built at the end of the century. It is one of the most majestic Venetian villas in Friuli, located in a prestigious position at the foot of the Abbey of Rosazzo (11th century), and surrounded by the hills of the eastern hills of Friuli. The main body rises on three floors and is flanked by two rustic two-storey lateral wings that surround the courtyard of honor in the center of which is a circular fountain. The complex includes 40 rooms and is spread over an area of approximately 1700 square meters. Other service buildings occupy the eastern parts of the house, where a private family chapel was integrated. Until the 1960s, according to experts, this could be considered "one of the most spectacular examples of Friulian Baroque in a country residence". Inside the villa you can admire a large central hall, decorated with stuccos and frescoes depicting landscapes with neoclassical motifs.
The vast central hall opens onto the large park that stretches to the foot of the hill, crossed by gravel paths that wind through pines and hazelnuts. The central hall has four adjacent rooms; to this nucleus are added a hall and two other rooms on each side. A special mention deserves the winter lounge with an elegant fireplace, a large nineteenth-century mirror and fine furniture. The villa housed an important picture gallery with more than fifty paintings from the 14th-20th centuries, many family portraits and a collection of black and colored prints. A road divides the main complex, just described, from the so-called “braide siarade”, a set of land surrounded by a crenellated wall that was once planted with wheat, corn, vines and vegetables. Across the road the entrance gate opens, surrounded by a low wall on which two statues stand. The villa has been a central place in the history of this area. Napoleon Bonaparte was hosted here with his wife Giuseppina and, during the First World War, King Vittorio Emanuele III with his wife Elena and the Duchess of Aosta. From September 1915 to the defeat of Caporetto, Villa Trento was the site of a very important military hospital of the British Red Cross and of the ambulances that operated in the area of the conflict, a few kilometers from Dolegnano. In the reportage of his experience as commander of the First Section of the British Red Cross, George Trevelyan dedicates many pages to Villa Trento, a place that was so loved by the sick that when they had to leave they "raised their voices and cried". This reportage became a source of inspiration for Ernest Hemingway for his novel "A Farewell to Arms" from 1929. Part of the events narrated are set in a villa, home to an English military hospital, identified as Villa Trento. Although he did not personally go here, he gave a very realistic description of it and praised it as "a very large villa, with a long driveway and ... with beautiful trees in the park". The complex was then the seat of the German command during the Second World War. The villa was the center of the town until the 1960s, when most of the inhabitants worked for the counts as colonists and it is a place to which many memories of the population are linked. Edited by Bosco F. Deganutti A. Dijust C. Furioso Cenci C.Nonino G.
