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Due to the last earthquake in this area a large part of the Villa has deteriorated: a major restoration of the site is underway.

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One of the most interesting historic houses in the Macerata area is certainly Villa Collio in San Severino Marche.

The building originates from a Casino of the Collio family, attributed by local historians to Pietro da Cortona, which collapsed in the 1799 earthquake.

In 1812 Giambattista Collio wanted to rebuild the villa on the same site and commissioned the architect-painter from Moglianese Giuseppe Lucatelli to he designed in a neo-Palladian style.

The complex, built on two levels and enclosed in a rectangular space enclosed by a curtain of mixed masonry, obsessively follows the strict classical rules of symmetry.

It is accessed through a vestibule that opens between two arcades, perpendicular to the staircase leading to the villa.

This is placed in a central and dominant position, on the highest level; on the sides two balustrades delimit the terrace which partly rests on a portico.

On the space in front of the villa, a chapel with a tetrastyle facade and an identical and specular building used as a billiard room characterize a lush Italian garden that contains flower beds, paths, basins, fountains, stone seats and niches with cherubs.

Lucatelli, who also designed various furnishing elements (balustrades, seats, gates, etc ...), used the work of local artists for the sculptures: Venanzio Biagioli for the lions of the staircase and the tubs, Fedeli Bianchini for the two cherubs placed in niches.

The villa is a square-plan building, like Palladio's “La Rotonda” in Vicenza, with four identical facades, which reflect the elements of the classical temple, with pilasters supporting a tympanum and framing the octagonal dome.

Inside, the various compartments, obsessively symmetrical, are distributed on the ground floor by the entrance hall lightened by the wall paintings by the star Lucatelli.

The house was inhabited until a few years ago by Count Servanzi Francisci Collio Giovanni Battista; on his death it passed to the Miliani Raimondi heirs.


There is also a nice Air BnB next to the villa:
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