Villa Borromeo Visconti Litta - Lainate - Milano - Italy

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The entire complex of Villa Litta was designed to the 1585 by Pirro I Visconti Borromeo, who became a place of delight belonged hitherto used for agricultural production activities. For its purpose Pyrrhus I, Milanese patron with vast knowledge and many interests, enlisted the cooperation of the best artists of the Lombardy area, including the architect Martino Bassi, sculptors Francesco Brambilla Prestinari the Young and Mark Antony, the Camillo Procaccini painters and Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli said Morazzone. In addition to the architectural renovation of the building, Pyrrhus set out the garden along the axis of penetration from south to north, stopped the building of orthogonally nymphaeum and culminating in north exedra. The nymphaeum or "building cool, beautiful architectural complex consisting of a succession of rooms decorated with mosaics and artificial caves, intended to accommodate the large museum collection of the Count, is considered one of the most important in Northern Italy for the wealth of decorations and the variety of water features: a sophisticated system of the latter, driven by the mechanics of a well, is still operated for the enjoyment of visitors in the summer evenings. In the years immediately following the 1721 Giulio Visconti Borromeo Arese, last heir of the family, built the Western Palace, also known as "New Quarter". Around the middle of that century the villa was inherited by the grandson, the Marquis Pompeo Litta - Biumi, which is fervently dedicated to the renewal of the village for four centuries into favor in holiday residences of noble families in Milan . He will actuated major renovation of scenic, multiplying the effects of perspective, creating scenes and backdrops, building from scratch the front of Nymphaeum, he used the work of several sculptors who Donato Carabelli, Peter Santostefano and architect and painter Francesco Arise. Top 800 worked on the architect Luigi Canonica, together with the botanist Linnaeus Tagliabue, who settled into English (in line with what he had done to the Villa Reale in Monza and the Villa Melzi d'Eril Bellagio) on the garden western part of the property, finished the house and rebuilt the Cascina Camilla (later demolished to make way for the establishment Allman). The house continued to prosper until 1870, when the decline of the Litta family, an active part in the movements for the Unification of Italy, led to the confiscation of the Villa by the state land. In 1872 became the property of Baron Ignatius Weill Weiss, the home passed in 1916 and 1932 Erminio Riboni family Toselli, who introduced the large-scale cultivation of orchids. In 1970 the Villa was purchased by the City of Lainate Finally, thanks to which, in collaboration with the Superintendency of Environmental and Architectural Heritage of Milan and with the participation of public and private interventions, this precious monument has now started a new life with the splendor of once. ( source Wikipedia - Google traslator )