Museo Civico Villa dei Cedri

The building that houses the Villa dei Cedri Museum, the origin of the villa, at least, xix century, as a result of the various changes that have taken place at the time. If the original country house simple form of late classicism, modern look mainly to the expansion of the architect Milan Nelusco Mario Antoniazzi, on behalf of the banker Arrigo fabrics, and how to buy property in 1931. The villa is in Ravecchia, a village situated on the slopes of Torrent Dragon and out of order, south of Bellinzona, the city to which he joined in 1907. In the late nineteenth century, Ravecchia was considered "the most beautiful suburb of Bellinzona, rich vegetation and villas with spectacular views of the lower part of the Ticino River Valley to Lake Maggiore" (Dictionary of Geography Switzerland, 1906). In this place of residence and rest you have practiced agriculture, horticulture, cattle ranching, and has a huge plantation of fruit trees. It is not surprising that this area if the Amen was chosen for the construction of suburban villas, mansions, as a rule, often from late spring to autumn, the second wide use among the patrician families of Bellinzona, as were the Bonzanigo, the first owners of the villa is still known. The house changed hands several times: from 1868 to 1905 has been family-owned Farinelli, so moved to resins that have sold in 1926 Henry Skins, and in 1931, Arrigo fabrics bought by the People's Bank. that the area if Amen was chosen for the construction of suburban villas, mansions, as a rule, often from late spring to autumn, the second wide use among the patrician families of Bellinzona, as were the Bonzanigo, the first owners of the villa is still known. The house changed hands several times: from 1868 to 1905 has been family-owned Farinelli, so moved to resins that have sold in 1926 Henry Skins, and in 1931, Arrigo fabrics bought by the People's Bank. that the area if Amen was chosen for the construction of suburban villas, mansions, as a rule, often from late spring to autumn, the second wide use among the patrician families of Bellinzona, as were the Bonzanigo, the first owners of the villa is still known. The house changed hands several times: from 1868 to 1905 has been family-owned Farinelli, so moved to resins that have sold in 1926 Henry Skins, and in 1931, Arrigo fabrics bought by the People's Bank.