About
1,000 sculptured heads in the private garden of a lunatic.
After only 7 years, Filippo Bentivegna returned to Italy in 1929, a changed man. Some said that he had been beaten and had brain damage. Others asserted that once a woman crushed his heart, his thinking started to fall apart. The specifics are murky, but upon his return to Sciacca, Sicily, he built a sizable sculpture garden and became known as the local eccentric. When Bentivegna returned to Italy after evading Mussolini's military service requirements to reside in America, he was met with a prison sentence. Fortunately or unfortunately, he was found to be too mad to carry out his sentence, so he acquired a little piece of property outside of Sciacca. He bought some rocky terrain and started to improve it while living alone in a little cottage.