Villa Sacro Cuore, Religious villa in Triuggio, Italy

Villa Sacro Cuore is a religious estate in Triuggio with a four-story central building and two lower wings that frame an entrance courtyard. The entire site is surrounded by extensive parkland and gardens that set the complex within a quiet environment.

The villa existed before 1523, when the Morigia family bought it with the surrounding land. In 1546 Jacopo Antonio Morigia left it to the Barnabites, who fled here from Monza and Milan during the plagues of 1630. After the Napoleonic suppression of 1805 the Barnabites abandoned it; engineer Susani turned it into a silkworm farm. The Jesuits bought it in 1917 and had Spirito Maria Chiappetta restore it; the works ended in 1922 with the installation of the 4.80-metre Sacred Heart statue.

The chapel of San Giovanni already existed in Carlo Borromeo's time, and he prayed there. The chapel of the Mater Divinae Gratiae, where Jesuits took their vows, keeps behind the altar an image of the Virgin originally from the Jesuit house in Gallarate. The chapel of the Sacred Heart, largely frescoed by Pasquale Arzuffi, served as Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi's lying-in-state chamber from 5 to 7 August 2017.

The villa stands in Tregasio, a hamlet of Triuggio, a few hundred metres from Villa Jacini and the church of San Biagio. All activity ceased on 21 October 2022, so there are no set visiting arrangements; access to the grounds and chapels should be agreed in advance with the Archdiocese of Milan, which has owned the property since 1984.

The 4.80-metre Sacred Heart statue on the roof, installed in 1922, gives the villa its name. The chapel of the Sacred Heart, the most richly frescoed of the four, served as the lying-in-state chamber for Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi from 5 to 7 August 2017 before his body was moved to the Duomo for the funeral.