Description
The
construction of the Maggi-Corvini Villa, should be probably dated
XVI
century. The first news written about the building come from the act of
acquisition with which a noble, Giuseppe
Maggi, in1609 entered in possession of
the property of the villa. The possession passed in this way at
Prandoni, and
then at Lainati, and in 1899, at the landscape's painter Giovanni
Corvini, so
at the Lampugnani - Gajo family, which sold it in 1975 to the Township.
We go on
and looking out of the glass door on the back of the villa, our sight
can
space in the Corvini park, actually
township's park opened at public and rich of
trees. The park once was embellished by statues and entertained
games
of hunting hare and noble tubs. We enter in the intern court and admire
the
structure of the manor which presents a square plant. Now we proceed
toward the
entry and we cross the vast porch with columns and once reduced with
plasters
and frescoes. This wing of the building is surely the most ancient of
the villa. The hall, the porch colonnade, the staircase with steps in
granite
that today brings to the offices,
propose the decorative motives and the eighteenth-century colors, with
prevalence of greens and blues on the plasters of the vaults and the
walls and
of grey on the beaten irons. Going
outside of the manor, from the road, we can notice, graven above the
door of
entry, the coat of arms of the Maggi's Family, represented by a rampant
lion
surmounted by a crown. On the window shows up the little balcony in
beaten
iron, with decorative motives of end sketch. After the restructuring in
the
90's, the manor is nowadays center of temporary shows, of theservices'
center and of the
Ecomuseum of the Parabiago's landscape.
