A place that has emerged from the interweaving of German and Italian traditions; a house like a museum in which history is present; a place that becomes the perfect meeting place: This is Villa Mylius Vigoni.
The rooms of the villa contain works by the most important artists of the early 19th century in Italy. You can experience a world of paintings and sculptures that bear witness to an ambitious vision of the culture of remembrance.
Heinrich Mylius acquired the villa in 1829 and bequeathed it to the Vigoni family. The last private owner, Ignazio Vigoni Medici di Marignano, bequeathed it in turn to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1983.
The building was originally a country house. In 1830, Mylius had it remodelled as a villa. He commissioned the architect Gaetano Besia to add a third storey and two side wings to the building. The striking façade is adorned with four large niches containing busts of friends of the family: Antonio Kramer, Gaetano Cattaneo, Alessandro Manzoni and Eduard Rüppell. In alignment with contemporary style, the interiors were decorated with grisailles and furnished with valuable and still striking furniture, sculptures and paintings.