Love, madness & Lecce baroque: restoring Palazzo Maresgallo

We sit down with Miriam De Rienzo Gazzola at Palazzo Maresgallo in Lecce, a sixteenth-century residence rescued from sixty years of abandonment and brought back to life as one of Puglia's most extraordinary boutique hotels and art spaces.Miriam tells us how she and her husband Lionel gave up two years of their lives to a restoration that their own architect told them was madness — and how Helen Mirren, at the grand opening, offered the word that made it all make sense: anima, soul.With twelve suites hung with works from their private collection, a noble floor given over to contemporary exhibitions, and a frescoed grand salon overlooking Lecce's Roman theatre, this is the story of a place built entirely out of love. And occasionally, a very beautiful kind of madness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.