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Villa Pignatelli

Villa Pignatelli , a neoclassical building, now known as Villa Pignatelli, home to the Museum Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes, was built in 1826. Since its origin, the peculiarities of this princely residence bind to the taste and prestige of aristocratic families that have inhabited it: the Acton, the Rothschilds and Pignatelli. In 1867, the second son of Carl Adolf Rothschild sold the villa to the Prince Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes: thanks to the taste and intelligence Princess Rosina, wife of the young prince's nephew, the villa becomes in the first decades of the twentieth century meeting place of kings and aristocrats of Italy and Europe. As long as the princess, in 1955, gives the State the Villa, with garden furniture and collection of decorative art objects, which are today the Museo Diego Aragon Pignatelli Cortes. Today, the first floor of the villa, in the Veranda Room , is the ideal venue for cultural activities, exhibitions and concerts, and can accommodate up to two hundred people .

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