Places
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 .