The villa

“Located in such a pleasant and beautiful spot that it deserves the name Villa Paradiso” The Albertini Family, who owns the villa today, acquired it on 22 December 1724. On the date of the purchase on the part of the degli Albertini family the villa was made up of one dominical house with its church and garden. The building is characterized by a façade with a wide stairway through which one reaches the noble floor distributed to the right and left of the large representation hall, which today is decorated with paintings painted by the owner himself. The family subjected the villa to a radical restoration process in 1962, thus giving it back its original freshness. In the rear façade of the palace one can see two beautiful windows in brocatello marble of Sant’Ambrogio, which are elegantly carved with capitals, flutes and ornamental “bacellature” of the Renaissance, inserted as breach in the masonry probably towards the end of the eighteenth century and originating from demolished buildings. A central stone balcony with an eighteenth-century parapet is also carved on the northern façade. The precious country houses are characterized by wide fornices, in part polycentric and in part at round arch in brick texture supporting the wall, made of tuff and river cobblestones bound with white lime mortar. The same building system was used for the two colombare-towers placed at the angles of the south side of the block. In the center of the front courtyard there is a beautiful well with a well-curb in finely shaped stone, modeled with a tasteful, simple line, surmounted by a double frieze from which hangs the well-pulley used to draw the water. The wrought iron gate is supported by two baroque pillars with large ashlars, surmounted by two nicely carves tuff statues (Adam and Eve), set as a great stage effect. Inside, in a kitchen on the ground floor, there is a marble column dated 1536 with a carved coat of arms and an inscription that refers to the construction of the building.