Palazzo Arese Borromeo is the surprise Cesano Maderno keeps for those who think it merely industrious Brianza: a seventeenth-century "palace of delight" with dozens of frescoed halls, Italian garden and nymphaeum, built by the powerful Bartolomeo III Arese, president of Milan's Senate. Guided visits unveil its learned iconography, among Lombardy's most extensive.
Around it, the old village with tower and courtyards; at the edges, the LIPU nature oasis in the Groane park, rare lowland heath. The Villoresi canal and the railway stitch it all to Milan: half an hour, and two centuries, away.
Near Cesano Maderno
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
