Villa Caccia in Romagnao Sesia (province of Novara) is a neoclassical monumental building built between 1842 and 1848 and designed by Alessandro Antonelli as a summer residence for the Counts of Caccia di Romentino.
Villa Caccia has a classic U shape: a central building for residential use with two piani nobili in addition to the ground floor and an attic with the lower side wings used as servants’ quarters, stables and warehouses. The villa covers 1,850m2, reaching a total of 4.080 m2 when all floors are counted, making it one of the largest in Piedmont.
The main façade, enclose by a courtyard has a quadrangular building with 19th century Piedmontese style windows at regular intervals, decorated with Ionian pilaster strips that flank each opening. On the retro, however, the façade is only two floors high, with a double portico crowned by a neoclassical tympanum
The bright whiteness of the building stands out amidst the vegetation of the trees in the park, centuries old. The eastern wing now houses the Museo Storico Etnografico of the lower Valsesia.
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