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Le château en bref
A Florentine neo-Renaissance manor unique in Corsica, the Château de Quenza was built in 1935 by Sébastien Colonna Cesari, Consul General of France in Florence until 1932. He came from a family of rural Corsican nobility, which he had left at the age of 19 following the tragic death of his father, an event that triggered a vendetta between rival families. Built by Italian craftsmen-masons in blond and pink granite and brick, with a square tower and colonnetted windows, the building embodies a certain idea of interwar splendour. The project remained unfinished for lack of funds: Colonna Cesari died on 4 April 1939 in the château he had envisioned. Owned by the commune of Quenza and awarded the "Architecture Contemporaine Remarquable" label in 2020, it now suffers from critical deterioration (collapsed interior floors) and urgently requires restoration of its roof and roof framework, with a view to conversion for heritage and cultural purposes.