Palazzo Bassi Brugnatelli is located in Brianza, between Milano, Bergamo and Lecco. It is a concentrate of history and art where centuries and different styles have left their indelible traces. It is the perfect place for the organisation of exclusive events, ceremonies and a set for shooting and film productions. The house, with its two neoclassical and baroque souls, consists of the residential building with its private chapel and overlooks a huge park.
In 1630 Count Giovanni Antonio Corio erected the palace on the soil called "Vigna Chiusa", incorporating an old house with press: it was bound to be a Villa of delight but also the headquarters of the fief of Robbiate and Paderno d'Adda.
The Corios were fully integrated into the political and cultural scene of the time, covering the roles of decurions (senators) of the duchy of Milan, feudatories, but also historians in the service of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza: Bernardino Corio wrote the "Historia of Milan".
The building reflects the prestige of the family in the monumentality of the spaces, in its large proportions as in the fine fresh decorations and all the embellishments in general.
It was equipped with a large Italian garden, with a spectacular perspective telescope that runs through the entire property; a large granite portal connects it to the provincial road built by the Austrians in the 1700s.
At the extinction of the Corio family in 1791, the house was purchased by the Nobil Donna Giovanna Stabilini Delfinoni who enriched it with neoclassical decorations on the ground floor in the church and expanded the garden in landscape forms. His Fumagalli heirs gave their name to the street in front.
As a result of alternating economic fortunes, the latter sold the house, which at the beginning of '900 was already proving to be challenging for its management costs (the feudal revenues were gone). In 1933 the Marquise Romilda Avignon, married Brugnatelli, bought the property, cared for and handed down by the next three generations, so as to reach today preserved in all its charm, witness of so much history and culture.
The staff of Palazzo Bassi Brugnatelli is available by reservation to organise exclusive guided tours and cultural activities of different types.
A great lover of nature and free travel, Marcello Bassi Brugnatelli has collected the most significant collection of vintage caravans in Italy.
About thirty rare specimens, rigorously original and maintained in perfect efficiency to remember a piece of history - that of the rear camping - often unknown.
Waiting to be able to create a permanent museum, these lively witnesses of tourism "en plein air" are shown to the public in occasion of temporary thematic exhibitions but also offered for original commercial shooting.
(Photo: 1968 - Digue Welcome Amorette)
Via Donna Ida Fumagalli, 23, 23899 Robbiate LC
