Villa Adriana
Via San Lorenzo, n. 282.
Villa Adriana is an eighteenth-century villa located between via San Lorenzo and viale Strasburgo, on the threshold of the Piana dei Colli.
La Villa, whose full name is Villa Statella Spaccaforno - Bordonaro, was built in 1750 by the marquis Giacomo Mariano Bajada and subsequently sold to the marquis of Spaccaforno and prince of Cassaro belonging to the Chiaramonte-Bordonaro family.
It is one of the most beautiful aristocratic residences in the city, both from an architectural point of view and for the richness of the interior furnishings, with precious pictorial objects.
Already from the entrance, the high crescent gable on the large main façade and the double frescoed room, decorated with friezes, trophies and noble coats of arms, at the entrance stand out.
A large and refined red marble staircase leads to the upper floor, the noble floor, characterized by a long sequence of rooms which culminates in the spectacular Ballroom, the heart of the Villa.
Decorated by the two great Palermitan artists Vito D'Anna and Elia Interguglielmi, it is covered with elegant frescoes depicting the allegories of Day and Night, while the walls enclose within illusionistic architectural scenes themes and subjects linked to classical culture.
Today the room that was used for lunch is the Chapel, and part of the majolica floors, the fireplaces and the doors dominated by bucolic landscape scenes are still visible.
Since the 50s the Villa has been entrusted to the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Eucharist and since 2013 the ground floor has been managed by the Itaca Palermo Onlus Project. (Source text Balarm.it)
It is currently used as a venue for receptions as well as being the seat of the "Didactic Museum of Sicilianity": https://www.facebook.com/museovillaadrianapalermo/
Property bound pursuant to Legislative Decree 42/2004. (DDG n. 1304 of 15.05.15)
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