Villa of the Immacolatine Sisters 

Situated in Via Privata Peiranze, a side street of Corso Cavallotti, the villa, formerly called Lurati, was built in 1898 according to a typically Liberty style architectural design by Pio Soli, in accordance with the canons borrowed from French culture.

Surrounded by a vast garden and currently safeguarded by the Fine Arts for its particular historical and artistic importance, the building has a characteristic canopy in glass and wrought iron, roof in fish-scale slate, attics made according to the Parisian fashion of the time and hammer-worked iron lace at the top of the roof.

The architectural structure of the villa is characterized by sober and classical shapes with gables surmounted by scrolls and by the traditional solution of the attic and the wrought iron railing.

Inside the villa there is a dining room with a finely stuccoed and frescoed ceiling, while a wing of the building houses a chapel used as a room for ceremonies.

The villa was the seat of a community of Immaculatine Sisters until 2003, when the building passed into the hands of a private company that carefully renovated it and transformed it into a holiday home.

(source: text Andrea Gandolfo; images private archive)