CORTONA | The historical and famous palaces

Villa Passerini

Villa Passerini is located in Pergo, a town nearby Cortona. The villa was built in seventeenth century, but during the next centuries has gone through many changings and restorations, especially during the 1800. The villa takes its names from the family of the cardinal Silvio Passerini, one of the most important personalities of Cortona. The outside of the villa has got a wide garden, fenced with a boundary stone wall. There are also many terraces and they are crossed by some avenues. The avenues take to a wood where once they used to set the nets to hunt the birds. On the side of the villa there are a beautriful garden with many varieties of flowers. Among the architectural elements there is one that is peculiar: the little neoclassical temple called “poledraia”, that once was used to place the citrus fruits during the cold season and it was decorated with mosaics on the façade and interior frescos where are represented some military scenes of the Napoleonic army. In front of the villa there is on the lawn a beautiful water basin, that was built in 1733, and it has got many decorations like a small bridge, a little island and some stone arches. The villa nowadays is not visitable, and it is used as place for wedding celebrations.