SHARRYLAND
Stork Villa in Trecate
Memories of a castle and a land furrowed by water
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What it is and where it is
One park, two entrances, two different worlds. Those lucky enough to find the old main entrance open would find themselves in the magnolia court, an elegant Italianate garden that is the official entrance to the villa. Today, however, it is the entrances to the English-style park that introduce us to the large green space, a cool hangout for the local community. And it is in this setting that the 18th-century villa stands. Inside are historic rooms, fireplaces, striking ceilings under which the Civic Library is now located, and a sumptuous, recently restored ballroom.
Why it's special
Have you ever found yourself thinking, during a visit to a villa, what it would be like to live inside it? Well, in Trecate you can find, at least in part, an answer to that question. In fact, the English garden has been converted into a public park, furnished with numerous play structures for children and used by sportsmen for jogging. The mansion, on the other hand, watches over the city's leisure moments with its restored old rooms, old fireplace, and stylish fixtures and balconies, but also with its ballroom, an ideal setting for cultural events and concerts.
Not to be missed
It is precisely the library and the ballroom that allow us to relive some of the atmosphere of life in the past. Reading and study on the one hand, music and merriment on the other. Silence and music alternate today as in the past in an environment of strong artistic value, skillfully restored by careful restorations. And it is precisely with their dance that they manage to brighten the hours of those who pass through these historic rooms overlooking the park, providing extremely pleasant moments.
A bit of history
Here stood the castle of Trecate, destroyed by Barbarossa with the rest of the village. In the 18th century, Marquis Antonio Giorgio Clerici, ambassador to the Holy See for Maria Theresa of Austria, built his hunting villa here. The design was entrusted to architect Francesco Croce, author of the main spire of Milan Cathedral. The villa was a place of recreation, but also the site of the family farm. After several changes of ownership, Giovanni Ascanio Cicogna Mozzoni began restoration work in 1917, designing the Italian garden and a huge English garden. Today the villa is a popular center of the municipal community.
Trivia
Even today, in dialect, to go to the park or library is to go "al casté," to the castle. What runs alongside the park and the villa and is now called Viale Cicogna was, and still is in grandparents' tales, traversed by irrigation ditches and canals, so much so that a nearby road crossing is still called, again in dialect, the "bridge." This Trecate "of the waters, " with the villa at its center, is now a melancholy black-and-white memory.
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