Villa Serra di Comago, 18th-century villa in Comago, Sant'Olcese, Italy
Villa Serra di Comago is an 18th-century villa in the Comago hamlet of Sant'Olcese, near the Secca stream in the Polcevera valley. The complex includes a Tudor-style neo-Gothic building and a medieval-style tower added in 1851, set within a nine-hectare English landscape park with streams, ponds, and tall exotic trees.
Villa Serra Pinelli is an 18th-century villa. In the mid-19th century Marquis Orso Serra radically transformed the estates bought from the Pinelli family: with Marquis Carlo Cusani he had the villa renovated and in 1851 built the Tudor-style neo-Gothic palazzina and a medieval-style tower. In 1938, on the death of the last Serra descendant, the complex passed to a religious institute; damaged in the Second World War and the 1970 Ligurian flood, it was bought in 1982 by Genoa, Sant'Olcese and Serra Riccò.
The park hosts exhibitions, concerts, archery competitions and events within the multicultural festival "Villa Comago Breakout". The name Comago comes from the hamlet of Sant'Olcese where the villa stands, near the Secca stream in the Polcevera valley.
The nine-hectare English park, with its streams and ponds, reopened to the public in 1992 after a decade of restoration work; the full restoration was completed in 2004. Paths lead from the villa past the 1851 Tudor-style palazzina and the medieval-style tower. The grounds are managed by the Consorzio Villa Serra, formed by Genoa, Sant'Olcese and Serra Riccò.
The nine-hectare English park was laid out in the mid-19th century for Marquis Orso Serra, who also had tall exotic trees planted there. Its streams and ponds, home to ducks and swans, are the work of that campaign rather than older features.
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