Mombrisone
There is a hunting villa in Palladian neoclassical style, with four flight of steps that lead through broad portals inside the octagonal building, on the peak of the Mombrisone hill. The construction, original compared to the local architecture, was requested by Avena who made it built in 1840. In that period the family Avena was owner of the Carthusian monastery, then becoming Hydrotherapeutic Institute, of the Glass and Crystal Factory Organisation and of numerous lands and group of farmhouses in the Valley.
The first floor of the villa hosted a lounge, three service rooms and an inner staircase for the access to a first terrace where you could climb by means of an ingot iron spiral staircase to the second floor. Here a broad skylight illuminated the central round room with paintings by Capetini, representing hunting scenes and stuccoes by Negrini. A big garden, planned by the famous landscape gardener Giuseppe Ketmann, surrounded the villa.
The municipality, nowadays in possess of the building is carrying out a gradual restoration and recovery project of the entire area.










