First came the castle. Then the golf course. The nearly 300,000 fans due to descend on the Marco Simone club for the Ryder Cup this week will be able to see the 11th-century castle with the same name from various points of the course.
Fashion designer and owner of the Marco Simone Golf Club Lavinia Biagiotti Cigna poses for a photo during an interview with the Associated Press, in her castle next to the course that will host the 44th edition of the Ryder Cup, in Guidonia Montecelio, Italy, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Biagiotti Cigna’s parents bought the 11th-century castle in 1978 and then decided to build the surrounding golf course. The castle contains about 50 rooms, many of which feature Renaissance-era frescoes.
Fashion designer and owner of the Marco Simone Golf Club Lavinia Biagiotti Cigna poses for a photo during an interview with the Associated Press, in her castle next to the course that will host the 44th edition of the Ryder Cup, in Guidonia Montecelio, Italy, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Biagiotti Cigna’s parents bought the 11th-century castle in 1978 and then decided to build the surrounding golf course. The castle contains about 50 rooms, many of which feature Renaissance-era frescoes.
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