{"id":7056,"date":"2023-11-15T04:30:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T09:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2023-11-15T04:30:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T09:30:43","slug":"her-family-inherited-a-900-year-old-italian-castle-heres-what-its-like-living-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/15\/her-family-inherited-a-900-year-old-italian-castle-heres-what-its-like-living-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Her family inherited a 900-year-old Italian castle. Here\u2019s what it\u2019s like living there"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Francesca Street<\/a>, CNN – When Ludovica Sannazzaro Natta introduces herself to new people, she always leads with the key facts: She\u2019s 21, about to turn 22. She\u2019s Italian. She\u2019s a \u201cvery proud Scorpio.\u201d She studied musical theater in Los Angeles and New York. Then, she\u2019ll add an unexpected extra detail into the mix: \u201cI live in a castle full time.\u201d<\/p>

Growing up in a castle<\/h2>

Sannazzaro Natta moved into the 45-roomed, turreted, fairytale Castle Sannazzaro when she was four years old.<\/p>

Sannazzaro Natta is descended from Italian nobility and her father is a count. This medieval fortress, located in picturesque countryside near Giarole, northern Italy, has been in her family for 28 generations.<\/p>

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Ludovica Sannzzaro Natta started posting videos to social media about her life in the castle. In the videos, she often wears “Bridgerton”-inspired ballgowns.<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>

The previous generation used Castle Sannazzaro primarily as a summer home, but in 2006, Sannazzaro Natta\u2019s parents decided to move from Milan and make the castle their full time residence, taking their young daughter with them.<\/p>

\u201cWhen I moved here, it was just so normal for me,\u201d she tells CNN Travel <\/a>today. \u201cIt was just my home and where I was going to live for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>

While the castle was \u201cnormal\u201d for young Sannazzaro Natta, she still recalls the thrill of discovering the abundance of rooms in the castle \u2013 there are 18 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms, as well as sitting rooms, a library, a balloom and a dining room, not to mention the moat, a chapel and secret passageways. Her parents soon realized that in a castle, games of hide and seek can last a long time.<\/p>

\u201cI would just run around the castle,\u201d Sannazzaro Natta recalls. \u201cMy parents couldn\u2019t find me sometimes because I thought it was so funny to hide inside closets.\u201d<\/p>

Sannazzaro Natta has an older brother, but he\u2019s 14 years her senior, so Sannazzaro Natta spent her childhood exploring the castle with her gang of friends. The kids would spend long days inventing tales of princesses, witches and wizards amid extremely appropriate surroundings. The castle, says Sannazzaro Natta, was a \u201cvery creative\u201d place to spend her formative years.<\/p>