Parco di Villa Gomes

Good to rest

Very relaxing

Bellisimo

good park friend

Pleasant and fun for kids

Just go there and enjoy your picnics, birthdays, musicals or just hang out?

Eclectic villa built in 1880 by Attilio Lecco Bull for the Brazilian musician Antonio Carlos Gomes (1836-1896). A historicist architecture the century, this villa stands out for its refined elegance and a restrained use of eclecticism prevailing contained, it is subject to a prevailing reference to a neo Renaissance architecture of which proposes, with intelligent solutions, 1'armonia composition and the strict symmetry of the volumes. The building is a rectangular block with two floors with two statements equally important, one oriented towards the village of Maggianico and another one, preceded by a wide staircase, toward the lake. On the western side is set along the body that used to be the greenhouse has been converted into an auditorium. The interior is enhanced by a staircase whose ceiling is very nice, the only degradation in which the villa for many years was left. Survives, thankfully, the beautiful floor "Venetian" of the hall on the ground floor as it was inexplicably removed 1 attico balustrades to that as well as hide the cover, it gave momentum and logical crowning the building. The staircase with painted ceiling The surrounding park, the largest of the city (about 37,000 square meters), very varied and boasts trees of great value. Charles Gomes gave his home of "Villa Fiori", the rarity and variety of plants imported by him. The house was sold by Gomes few years after its erection. Passed through several hands, it was bought in 1970 by the city of Lecco and for over fifteen years and was not used in any way. This explains the loss of almost all decorating the ceilings and walls, of which you can admire some fragments on the walls of the central hall on the ground floor. The villa was totally restored in 1987 to a design by engineers Terragni Como, dovendola bend to the demands of the civic school of music that it houses.

Really nice and clean park with beautiful landscape ... Super recommend for chilling