Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta

The film richly illustrates the history of one of the most famous and lavish Italian pleasure villas located in the town of Lainate in Lombardy not far from Milan Using onsite documentation costumed reenactments interviews with prominent curators and historians architectural models and computer graphics Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta portrays centuries of Italian art and architectural history in terms of stylistic expression The film also explores the social familial and political milieuxnot least of which is the chronicle of Pirro I Visconti Borromeo count of Brebbia the creator of this place of art and delights a romantic a patron and a sophisticated man of culture in Milan during the late sixteenth century The villas wonders are manyits famous Nymphaeum greenhouses palaces sculptures frescoes fountains and water features among them