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The Scarzuola is the surreal work of art designed by Tomaso Buzzi. Buzzi was an architect, artist and one of the best know Italian literate men of the twentieth century. The Scarzuola rises in the town of Montegiove, near Montegabbione (Terni). It is said that in 1218, St Francis of Assisi lived there, and built a hut made of scarsa (a kind of aquatic plant, hence the name Scarzuola). The Scarzuola today is a place of magic, transformed by the Milanese architect Tommaso Buzzi, who bought the monastery in 1957 to build his ideal city. The ideal city is located at the end of the garden, overlooking a vast natural amphitheater. It looks like a bizarre town made of tuff.