VILLA MENAFOGLIO LITTA PANZA OF VARESE

Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza, or Villa Orrigoni Menafoglio Litta Panza, is a villa located in Biumo Superiore, today a district of Varese. He is known for his collection of contemporary art.

The villa has a park that extends for about 33 thousand square meters.
The first works of the building in the park are to the first owners, the Menafoglio, who make a series of leveling the ground to create three parterre to the French: the first place on the main axis of the court of honor, the second on the side of the villa and the third place at a lower level than the first two.
The new owners, the Birds, according to the taste of the time according to the principles of English landscaping, intervene on the original appearance and plant the perimeter zones of the second and third parterre with tall trees.
Finally Count Ernesto Panza entrusts a new intervention to the architect Piero Portaluppi, which also leads to the construction of the greenhouse and the hillock with the temple.

Periodically the FAI organizes temporary exhibitions in the villa.

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VILLA MENAFOGLIO LITTA PANZA OF VARESE

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