In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.
If you recreate something, you succeed in making it exist or seem to exist in a different time or place to its original time or place. I am trying to recreate family life far from home. to make something from the past exist again in a new form or be experienced again = recapture
{f} create again, remake, produce again; restore, refresh, invigorate; refresh the mind or body through relaxing activity
To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to gratify