UNESCO
Intangible Cultural Heritage
We are proud of our heritage and are passionately committed to creating a better future for out planet. In this House many painters, writers and Nobel Prize worked to help build a better world together.
‘An English Lord’s House on the Island of the Leopard’ (Saglimbene), ‘an early 20th century artistic jewel (Vogue)’, ‘an international cenacle of art and literature’, Casa Cuseni has the credit for having promoted,
first and foremost, the cultural and artistic identity of the City of Taormina. Hundreds of intellectuals have worked in its rooms, such as Tennessee Williams, Henry Faulkner, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalì.
Nine Nobel Prize winners in Literature: Ernest Hemingway, who wrote his first novel here in his youth,
Lord Bertrand Russell, who theorised the Peace Manifesto here, and Anatole France, William Yeast, Thomas Mann, Andre Gidè just to mention a few, without forgetting Jòzef Rotblat, Nobel Prize winner in Science, the scientist who studied and applied radioactive isotopes to medicine. A House at the forefront of human rights, a place where intellectuals (Juddu Krishnamuri, Jòzef Rotblat, Bertrand Russell, Danilo Dolci, and many others), together, have resisted and protested against the world’s wars and dictatorships.
An Italian National Monument with eight restrictions for its protection and preservation, it was recently declared a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Site.
