VisitaMilano

 Archbishop’s Villa
The archdiocesan villa located between the Adda and the Martesana was commissioned by cardinal Federigo Borromeo after his predecessor, Carlo Borromeo, demolished a building at least six centuries older on the same site. On three levels, surrounded by a vast garden, it has a horseshoe layout.

 Arconati Palace
It is one of the "Ville di Delizia", the aristocratic residences that were characteristic of the Milan area, and is situated in the territory of Bollate, in the Castellazzo locality. It is worthy of its nickname, "Little Versailles". The main proponent of the villa was Galeazzo Arconati Visconti, the famous 17th century collector, who boasted having among his own collections Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus, the Roman statue of Pompey the Great and the sculptures from the mausoleum of Gaston de Foiz, carved by Bambaia. Castellazzo, with its garden enhanced by shrines and theatres, became one of the most prestigious and renowned of Lombardy's "Ville di delizia". Its eighteenth-century main monumental staircase, the Phaethon Room with frescos by Galliari, and the reorganisation of its splendid gardens are just some of the qualities which made the villa an important destination for visitors, and the subject of frequent literary references, starting with Carlo Goldoni.

 Bicocca degli Arcimboldi
The villa Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, built around the middle of the fifteenth century, is located at number 202, viale Sarca. Created as opposed to a farmstead and rural residence, today after restoration and renovation in the 1900's, it is one of the few surviving examples of a suburban villa from the Sforza era. Inside, today the main office of a financial holding company, are major cycles of Milanese frescoes from the fifteenth century testifying a dame occupied with hobbies, hairstyles, perfumes, embroidery, musical instruments and games. The building, which is spread over two floors, has a mixed structure and is characterized by rustic elements from its citizens.

 Casa Crivelli
Casa Crivelli is an example of a fifteenth century stately building.

 Giacobbe house
Casa Giacobbe is an historical 18th century house belonging to an important Magenta family, which still shows bullet holes on the facade. The porticoed entrance hall is decorated with late 17th century frescos by Giacomo Campi.

 Park and Villa Scheibler
The park was inaugurated in 2005, after an addition of new space, designing walkway paths, and the development the inherited rich arboretum, tied to the previous communal garden centre. The park has its origins in the area where there was the "Cascino hunting" by Ludovico il Moro, formerly known as Lessona Park, located in the neighborhood of Fourth Oggiaro. The main point of the park is the Villa Scheibler, the eponymous Count, who in 1927 gave the park to the city.

 Park of the Litta Modignani villa
The park, created at the end of the seventeenth century as an Italian garden, it was expanded and transformed into a "landscaped garden" in the mid 1800's by Count Ercole Silva, botanical expert who redesigned Italian tradition according to British layouts. The Villa enjoyed its heyday in the nineteenth century with the Count Trivulzio, which was a sitting among intellectuals, such as Manzoni, Count Silva and Hayez. In 1927 it became the property of the City of Milan. In the first post-war period was curiously called "el giardin di matt", as the provincial administration had asked some guests to the maintenance of the Paul Pini.

 Testori's House
Novate Milanese is the birth place of the poet, theatrical script writer, art critic and painter Giovanni Testori. The small building housed the scholar's collection of old and modern paintings and those of numerous other artists. In the nineteen eighties, he gathered together the works of many youngsters, promoted thanks to the exhibitions organised by him at the Compagnia del Disegno.

 Villa Alari Visconti
The dwelling dates back to the 1700's and is the work of the engineer and architect Giovanni Ruggeri for Giacinto Alari. The coat-of-arms of the Alari family stands our on the villa gate: a hand grasping a lance. It sits perpendicular to the Naviglio and impressively dominates the garden, enclosed by a row of poplars. The main body covers two floors; it is used as the owner's residence while the two perpendicular wings are used for services. The external style has refined and elegant shapes, and contrasts with the interior in Baroque style, which boasts 18th century frescos and decorations in golden stucco work. The villa contains frescos by Giovanangelo Borroni and Giovanni Antonio Cucchi.

 Villa Annoni
The imposing villa Annoni stands out in the southern part of Cuggiono; it was built on the basis of the plans by Zanoja during the early 1800's and extended after 1920 by Cicogna. Its large fenced-off park is the second largest of its kind in Lombardy, after that of the royal villa in Monza. Designed in compliance with the forms of the English garden, still today it has a beautiful variety of landscape views, moved by the curvilinear progression of the trails, the creation of artificial little hills, a small lake, as well as the presence of precious and by now secular plants. The historical-architectural value of the villa is still important, with its central body and two side wings and, in the garden, a coffee-house, the doe and deer house, an ionic temple and the lemon-houses. Having been passed on to new owners over time (the Cicogna family first and then the Bellora family), from 1979 the villa became municipal property and from 2007 after a gradual and partial restoration intervention, it became the headquarters of the municipality.

 Villa Antona Traversi and Church of Saint Vittore
Villa Antona Traversi, transformed from the ancient monastery of S. Vittore, is a sumptuous Neoclassical construction by Leopold Pollack (early 19th century), with decorations probably by Pelagio Palagi. It has a compact structure with a horizontally developed facade. The villa was purchased in 1836 by the Traversi family, and their descendants, the Antona Traversi Grismondi, still live there. On the ground floor there are Neoclassical rooms and the Choir room (now the internal chapel), with frescoes by Bernardino Luini and associates.

 Villa Archinto - Il Castello
Also called "The Castle" because of its two crenellated towers, making this one of the most noticeable buildings in the Naviglio Grande. Begun between the 17th and 18th centuries, the design included a complex of four large buildings with a central block five storeys high, with four wings of the same height, an exedra for carriages to the village and a couple of wharves on the canal.

 Villa Arconati
The villa (XVII - XVIII century) was inhabited by noble families: the Arconati, to the Arese and the Bay family. Currently, the villa belongs to a private company.

 Villa Arese - Salesiano's centre
It was originally the country home of the count Marco Arese Lucini and the countess Antonietta Fagnani. At the start of the XIX century, it hosted the poet Ugo Foscolo who was in love with the countess. Nineteenth century construction with central body and triple ground loggia; the construction was a reelaboration of a preexisting building.

 Villa Arrigoni "la Peralza"
Also known as "the Peralza", nowadays it is in a private sports complex belonging to the Town Council of Magenta in the hamlet of Pontevecchio. Some of the outhouses have been converted into an important restaurant of the same name.