At Castellazzo di Bollate hides Lombardy's "little Versailles": Villa Arconati, an eighteenth-century pleasure palace with frescoed halls, monumental gardens of exedras and greenery theatres, reborn as a visitable estate with a summer festival of concerts in the park. An unexpected heritage on the metropolis's edge.
The rest of Bollate is straightforward Milanese North-West: the Groane park with its heathlands, absorbed farm courtyards, the railway reaching Cadorna in fifteen minutes. On Sundays, the villa and the woods make you forget the ring road.
Near Bollate
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