Villa Favorita
The Villa Favorita is a historic building in Lugano- Castagnola , in the Swiss canton of Ticino . It is located at the foot of Monte Brè and has a 600 m long coastline on Lake Lugano .
history
The villa was built in 1687 by Karl Konrad von Beroldingen . In 1732 it came into the possession of the Lugano Marquis Giovanni Riva . From 1919 to 1932 the building was owned by Friedrich Leopold von Preussen , after which Heinrich Thyssen bought it .
Thyssen housed his rich art collection in the Villa Favorita, which his son Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon continued and expanded after his death in 1947. In the second half of the 20th century, Villa Favorita and its art collection were open to the public. Shortly before the end of the Second World War, Thyssen's daughter Margit von Batthyány fled the Red Army from her home in Rechnitz in Burgenland to the Villa Favorita, where she lived until her death in 1989.
In 1993 Hans Heinrich Thyssen sold the art collection to Spain . Today it can be seen in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid . After the death of Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza in 2002, the villa fell to his widow. She put the villa up for sale after abandoning plans to convert it into a modern luxury residence. In 2015 it was sold to the family of the Italian cheese manufacturer Romeo Invernizzi.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Soraya Melguizo: Los reyes del queso, nuevos propietarios de Villa Favorita article in El Mundo of January 26, 2015
Coordinates: 46 ° 0 ′ 0 " N , 8 ° 58 ′ 53" E ; CH1903: 719 515 / 95446