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 Villa Frisiani Olivares Ferrario
The Municipality of Corbetta is located inside the grandiose Villa Frisario Olivares Ferrario, built in 1700 over a medieval monastery of the Humble order. A small lake fed by a spring crosses the English garden located on the back.

 Villa Galluzzi, Roveda, Valcarenghi, Prevostina in Barbaiana
The building was built between the XVII and XVIII century on a pre-existing farmhouse dating back to the XV century belonging to the Girami family.The current building dates back to the first half of the 1700s and has frescoed rooms on the ground floor.It was the home of Cesare Galluzzi who fought in the battle of Solferino and S. Martino.

 Villa Gandini - Villa Gaia
It is the oldest residence in Robecco. one of the first on the Naviglio Grande and it continues, along a series of three courtyards, the array of town palazzos and buildings from the renaissance period. On the canal. the villa (which used to belong to Borromeo, Biglia and to Confalonieri) has a 17th Century balustrade and boasts trompe l'oeil cornices. In the main courtyard, which has porticos on three sides, repairs have uncovered 15th Century frescoes. The inside is furnished with period pieces, the wooden ceilings are worthy of note, the staircase dates from 1760 (where there was originally a ramp for horses), and the monochrome decor is perhaps the work of the neoclassical painter Andrea Appiani and a barochetto style study.

 Villa Gargantini Archinto
The eighteenth century project of Villa Archinto Gargantini in Incirano foresaw a large internal garden. Unfortunately the left wing and the central body of the original rectangular shaped layout have been lost. Nevertheless, despite significant restorations and numerous readaptations, the villa still has certain interesting architectonic and decorative elements, such as the fountain with the stone mask, the granite columns of the portico and the cylindrical turret with belvedere, which is of romanesque manufacture and which looks onto the road. It was once linked from a structural and functional point of view to Castoldi courtyard where, up until the last century, the farmhands and peasants who looked after the land resided, the building is currently the headquarters of the Librarian North-west Consortium.

 Villa Gattinoni Ferrario
Villa Gattinoni Ferrario is one of the most prestigious buildings in Vanzago. Built in the eighteenth century by the Milesi, it was acquired by the Ferrario family whose last descendant, Rosa, bequeathed it to a welfare association for the elderly in 1962.

 Villa Ghirlanda Silva
Villa Ghirlanda Silva, the headquarters of the Modern Photography Museum, is one of Lombardy's most important baroque villas. Standing adjacent to the church of Sant'Ambrogio and Villa Suigo Caorsi Spreafico, it was readapted on several occasions. The cycles of frescos in the rooms, depicting mythological subjects, are noteworthy and the garden, which is used during the summer season for open-air events, is also quite striking.

 Villa Gina
On a spur overlooking the Adda and the Shrine to the Divine Maternity, Villa Gina in Concesa (district of Trezzo sull'Adda) is surrounded by a public park that gradually slopes down to the mouth of the Martesana Canal. Probably built on the ruins of a fortified mansion, the residence was enlarged to its current size in the mid-1800 at the request of the Mayor of Milan, Paolo Bassi, taken over in 1920 by Silvio Crespi and later by the Opera Nazionale Balilla of Bergamo which turned it into a technical school for war orphans. After the Second World War, Villa Gina became the rehab centre Casa del Sole and, lastly, was purchased by the Trezzo Town Council. It has large, pointed arch windows and its interior features a walnut staircase, a slate fireplace and coffered ceilings.

 Villa Giulini Casati (S. Martino)
1713, when the complex of the Monastery of San Martino (founded in the 8th century) was renovated and incorporated into the residence. In the second half of the 18th century, Count Giorgio Giulini imposed Neo-Classic forms on the villa, with a characteristic U-shaped layout facing towards the centre of the town. Inside the large age-old park that extends almost to the Lambro, there is a Neo-Classic lemon-house. Around 1840, ownership of the residence passed through marriage to the Casati family, whose members played a role of particular importance in the history of Arcore during the 19th and 20th centuries. Camillo (1805- 1869) was a municipal counsellor and promoted the construction of the Monza-Lecco railroad; Alessandro (1881-1955), who was the Minister of Public Instruction and a friend of Benedetto Croce who stayed in the villa, participated in the partisan fight against the Nazis which saw several of the town's inhabitants involved in attacks on the on the flying field and in the massacre of Valaperta.

 Villa Gnecchi Ruscone
The villa is an example of eighteenth century Lombard architecture, built as of the seventeenth century. It includes several buildings located around a U-shaped courtyard, outlined by two symmetrical double storey buildings that lead to a wrought iron gateway held by pilasters with lion statues. The villa is arranged over two floors with a portico of three Tuscan style support columns. On each side are the cabins with their corresponding courtyards, a chapel, the carriage houses and stables. The interior houses several rooms with panelled ceilings with roof painting, the stairway, a neoclassical room with roof paintings, the chapel and sacristy entirely covered by frescoes. Behind the villa extends an L shaped garden, the green-house and the swimming pool.

 Villa Gromo di Ternengo
La Villa Gromo di Ternengo è stata rifatta nel 1869. Prende nome da quando nel 1884 Antonietta Negrotto Cambiaso, discendente dei Casati, sposò Emanuele Gromo Richelmy conte di Ternengo. L'atrio centrale, affrescato, serviva per passare dal parco, che rivolge al Naviglio il padiglione a imbarcadero della "Sirenella".

 Villa Imbonati Manzoni
Alessandro Manzoni inherited the villa from his mother Giulia Beccaria and used it for a long time as his residence and summer holiday home. An important example of Neoclassical architecture, it still maintains salons with the original furnishings and stuccos and some Manzoni mementos. The villa still contains the library, bedroom and household oratory. The study where the writer worked was a rather low, but cool room, with the walls covered with books and direct access to the garden, right at the beginning of the "plane tree walk", the main walkway of the park, where Manzoni used to walk.

 Villa Kevenhuller Borromeo d'Adda
The villa was commissioned in 1854 by the Countess Leopolda Kevenhüller, widow of the Marquis Febo d'Adda. The engineers Giuseppe Righetti and Ernesto Bianchi were entrusted to design the villa. The complex was handed over to the local council of Solaro in 1988 and restored by the architect Raffaele Selleri and the engineer Giovanni Alberto Borghi. The villa has stylistic features from late neoclassic times both on the central temple pediment and on the internal symmetric distribution of the rooms. Even the rustic buildings to the side of the manor house reflect the same characteristics, almost of Biedermeier culture. The construction of the villa led to important urban work in the ex-novo creation of the symmetric square, that reflects the space in the internal courtyard; a road was also opened up, called Contrada Nuova (present day via Borromeo) linking Cesate, with a strong spectacular leaning, underlining the central position of the manor house.

 Villa Krentzlin
The Villa Krenttzlin in 1700, it was the country residence of the Beolchi family. Meanwhile during the early part of the next century, it belonged to the Krentzlin, high imperial functionaries in Milan. The monogram of their leading noble representative Luigi, KLN, was displayed up to a few years ago in the wrought iron gateway. On the other side of the wall, the main building's fa?ade has a pleasant patter of windows. Behind the structure there is a park. The side of the country house is the current entrance.

 Villa Litta Modignani
The Villa Litta Modignani is a noteworthy building which used to belong to key local figures and today is the municipality's administrative building.

 Villa Maggi-Corvini
It belonged to the Maggi, one of the oldest families of Parabiago, whose coat of arms that depicts a rampant lion is still sculpted on the villa's entrance. The property then passed on to the Prandoni family, then to the Lainati and, in 1899, to the landscape artist, Giovanni Corvini. The latter renovated the north-eastern wing of the Villa creating the "room of columns" used as a picture gallery and for the creation of various classical decorations. Purchased by Mrs. Ida Lampugnani in 1941, the Villa, with its adjacent park, then became the townhall's property in 1975.