Scenic street view in historical center of Chieti, Italy, with an elderly woman in black tending to potted plants outside aristocratic buildings.

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Villa Delfina Olivieri

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Welcome to Villa Delfina Olivieri

Facade of a historical building in Chieti, housing the Museum of Fossils and Amber.

Villa Delfina Olivieri de Cambacérès is named after a young aristocrat, born in Chieti on May 1, 1874, who lived in San Valentino with her parents, and died on July 13, 1897, at just twenty-three years old, in Castellamare Adriatico.
Delfina was the daughter of Leocadia de Cambacérès, widow of Silvino Olivieri, and Michele Olivieri, brother of Silvino (1829-1856), originally from Caramanico, hero of the Italian Risorgimento, killed in Argentina, in Bahia Blanca on September 29, 1856, in a plot hatched by the same legionaries, not without some complicity from the Buenos Aires government itself. Giuseppe Mazzini said of him: "Olivieri is such that he would quickly earn Garibaldi's place in public opinion."

The complex consists of the ancient Augustinian monastery, built in 1595 by Father Vincenzo da Cantalice. Inside the courtyard is the church dedicated to Saint Nicholas of Tolentino (1245-1305), the town's patron saint. During the Napoleonic decade (1805-1815) and following the Unification of Italy, some religious corporations were suppressed and their assets seized by the new state. In 1885, part of the building was sold to the family of Michele Olivieri. The complex thus transformed from an ancient monastery into an urban hermitage, then into an aristocratic palace, and finally became municipal property. Since 2004, it has housed various associations and is home to the Museum of Fossils and Amber.

Scenic view of an Italian village with a snow-capped mountain in the background.

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