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| Villa Fiorita Palazzo municipale di Brugherio | |
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| Localizzazione | |
| Stato |  Italia
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| Regione | Lombardia |
| Località | Brugherio |
| Indirizzo | piazza Cesare Battisti, 1 |
| Informazioni generali | |
| Condizioni | In uso |
| Uso | municipio |
| Piani | 2 |
| Ascensori | 1 |
| Realizzazione | |
| Proprietario | Comune di Brugherio |
Villa Scotti-Cornaglia-Noseda-Bertani, well-known as Villa Fiorita, is the building where Brugherio Commune's headquarters are hosted.
History
Villa Fiorita is an aristocratic historical urban mansion with an L-shape layout. An extension overlooks the old town throught a wrought iron railing sustained by pillars late baroque which is the main entrance. An other one, in the backside, gives onto a wide park from which we could straight arrive into chiesa's square.
The mansion, built in 1721, was an "aristocratic house" with shells and garden, counts property of Scotty's family, who have been in Brugherio since the beginning of sixteenth century. The land, was Corte di Monza's.
In 1778 count of Vedano, Giambattista Gallarati Scotti, sold it (with the near-placed building, today known as Palazzo Ghirlanda-Silva) to Gaspare Ghirlanda who, probably, started the reconstrution and the decoration's works whose now many traces remain.
After that, the mansion was inherited by Noseda's family, milanese land-owner, who used it as a summer residence[1]. In 1921 it was bought by Bertani's brother, who built a big woolen mill then taken by Marzotto.
In 1938 the mansion was given to nursing home nervous didease Villa Fiorita[2]. This clinic, managed by accountant Bogani, came from Milano[3] and, between 1949 and 1956, hosted the painter Filippo De Pisis from Ferrara who used the mansion's greenhouse as an office, now called Serra de Pisis.
The aristocratic building, because of the inheritance and the recent transformation into a nursing home, had been modified a lot of times, due to practical and sanitary causes: two shells and an extension of it were knocked down in 1963.
The building was further more remodelled, however without changing the structure stemmed from the before operations, to host the sede municipale, whose opening took place on the 17th of december in 1978. During the renovation, the orignial three-arcades portico was rebuilt with beautiful granite pillars.
Description
The remodelling works have erased almost of the whole fresco's decorations on the facade. On the backside we could glimpse a monochrome representation of cariatidis that seem supporting the balconys, which actually are a twentieth-century addition.
On the inside, at the ground flour, in the mayor's office, we could see fresco on the ceiling while, in the hall and in the central room overlooking the garden, there are frieze's remainings of eighteenth-century frescos, which show mitological scenes (maybe episodes from Cleopatra's life).
Throught the grand staircase to the first floor, we could admire a big fresco "Arts and crafts" by Max Squillace, Franco Ghezzi and Gian Mario Mariani. In the wall painting are depicted culture, family, field works and factory works, and man's aggressiveness. Field works are rappresented by a man with plough and oxes. Field works were the first economic richness's source which then were displaced by factory, technology and industry mechanization. Family, in a social context, is depicted by a man who gives to a woman, layed down on the big hand of earth mother, a wheat seed as fecundity's sign. Figure contained in a globe are representing culture. This bodies, in all their beauty, strongly statuesque, are stirred, as getting out of the structure in which they are put, to show that culture isn't about few elected people but an interchangeable property. At last, a man that symbolizes the aggressiveness which is inside of us and we should "take it out" to create something new and maybe a new world. In the middle, as show the bond of all these with the city, there is the town's coat of arms[4].
Villa Fiorita's Park
Beyond Villa Fiorita's building, in the middle of Brugherio, there are a english landscape garden which is extended for about 7 000 m² .
The first historical informations about this park go back to eighteen century, when it was just a little garden annexed to count Ottaviano Scotti's mansion.
In the second half of the nineteenth century it was enlarged and transformed into a classic romantic garden. We could see the typical elements of the informal park: man-made hill, sinuous paths, irregular arboreous setting, the rocailles to delimit flower-beds and the avenues and the fence.
The arboreous assets count more than 600 specimens composed not just by hackberries and yew trees, but also by cedars, horse chestnuts, beeches, ginkos, maples, elms and robinias.
It's remarkable the monumental hackberry in front of De Pisis greenhouse, the magnificent Sophora japonica and the historical cane thicket of bamboo.
In the park there are a playground for children and a kiosk with a comfort zone, too. The park also hosts cultural and musical events and, ih summer evenings there are shown movies open-air[5].
De Pisis greenhouse
Inside Villa Fiorita's Park there's a building, pertained to the mansion, that was used as a greenhouse. Villa Fiorita became a nursing home nervous didease, and between 1949 and 1956 it hosted the painter Filippo de Pisis (1896-1956) of Ferrara who used as an office the mansion's greenhouse, choosing it because it was surrounded by park's green and because the optimal exposure to the sun.
References
- ^ Brugherio: i suoi luoghi, la sua storia: 225. anniversario del primo volo italiano in mongolfiera con uomini a bordo - 2009 - p. 32
- ^ Manuela Mancini Brugherio presente e passato, Swan Edizioni, 1996, p. 17
- ^ Cooperativa Agricola di Consumo, Calendario BRUGHERIO ierioggi 1994, Brugherio.
- ^ Brugherio - Notiziario Comunale - january 1979
- ^ Comune di Brugherio. Parco di Villa Fiorita, su comune.brugherio.mb.it. URL consultato il 18 marzo 2015.
Bibliography
- Brugherio: i suoi luoghi, la sua storia: 225. anniversario del primo volo italiano in mongolfiera con uomini a bordo, Brugherio, Comune di Brugherio, 2009.
- Luciana Tribuzio Zotti, Brugherio nei documenti, Brugherio, Musicografica Lombarda, stampa 1986.
- Luciana Tribuzio Zotti, Brugherio: luoghi memorabili, Brugherio, Parole Nuove, 1987.
- Manuela Mancini, BRUGHERIO Presente e Passato, Milano, Swan Edizioni, 1996.
- Cooperativa Agricola di Consumo, Calendario BRUGHERIO ierIOggi 1994, Brugherio.
External links
- Comune di Brugherio. Home Page, su comune.brugherio.mb.it. URL consultato il 18 marzo 2015.
- Comune di Brugherio. Parco di Villa Fiorita, su comune.brugherio.mb.it. URL consultato il 18 marzo 2015.
- Lombardia Beni Culturali. Architetture. Villa Ghirlanda, Noseda, Bertani (complesso) Brugherio, su lombardiabeniculturali.it. URL consultato il 3 aprile 2015.