What to See in Saronno: Attractions & Sights

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Chiesa di San Francesco Churches
Saronno's old parish church, passed to the Franciscans, with frescoes by the Legnani and by Luini's sons.
Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate Churches
Saronno's fourteenth-century church, tied to the plague of 1576 and to the feast of Saint Anthony on 17 Janua…
Palazzo Visconti Castles
The sixteenth-century palace that was Saronno's town hall, the «Municipi Vècc», unused since the fire of 2007.
Santuario della Beata Vergine dei Miracoli Churches
Saronno's Renaissance sanctuary, with Amadeo's lantern tower and frescoes by Luini and Gaudenzio Ferrari.
Museo della Ceramica G. Gianetti Museums · More places of interest
Meissen porcelain and eighteenth-century majolica collected by Giuseppe Gianetti, in a villa of the thirties.

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Museo della Ceramica G. Gianetti

The Museo della ceramica Giuseppe Gianetti is on via Carcano, in the centre of Saronno. It holds the porcelain, majolica and ceramics that belonged to the industrialist Giuseppe Gianetti, born in Saronno in 1887 and dead in 1950, who began collecting in 1913 with European and Chinese pieces and had a special fondness for Meissen porcelain. The museum was created in 1994 in Villa Biffi, a villa of the nineteen-thirties that had been the home of Nina Biffi, sister of Gianetti's wife: in that year the villa was donated to the COE Foundation and opened to the public.
What to see
The largest group is that of Meissen: about two hundred eighteenth-century porcelains. The second collection brings together Italian, European and Oriental porcelain: makers such as Vezzi, Ginori and Capodimonte, sixty-five pieces from European factories, among them Vienna, Ludwigsburg, Zurich, Chantilly, Sèvres, Tournai and Chelsea, and thirty-three Chinese and Japanese porcelains made for the Western market. The third is devoted to Italian and European majolica of the eighteenth century. The collection of Aldo Marcenaro and a section of contemporary ceramics have been added.
The display runs through nine rooms. The villa keeps its original parquet, marbles, staircases, window fittings, furnishings, mirrors and Murano glass chandeliers.
Visiting
Opening times, tickets and guided visits should be checked on the museum's official website.
Our editors' tip
The last room is a bathroom: the «Chamber of the Triton», on the first floor, with walls lined with large slabs of yellow Siena marble, a floor of black African marble and a stucco barrel vault with the figure of a triton. The bath still has its original taps.