The history of the villa

The villa stands on an alluvial terrace of the Oglio river, a typical manor residence of a vast land estate.

Of medieval origins, as evidenced by the portico with terracotta columns and chamfered dado capitals, adjacent to the one with Renaissance arches, it was partly transformed in the eighteenth century, like the oratory dedicated to San Rocco.

In the frescoes of the rooms on the ground floor, nineteenth-century characteristics prevail: vast marine and urban settings, combined with references to music in the entrance ceiling, attributed to the Cremonese Giulio Motta (1787-1860). Extensive views are also found in the Souvenirs du monde room, framed in an elaborate trompe l'œil framework, and in the Napoleonic room, which describes an episode of Bonaparte's descent into Italy.

The most evocative space is the living room, populated by a myriad of little men who toil to collect gigantic fruits, catching monstrous river prawns around the overflowing triumph of watermelons and pumpkins on the fireplace: a fantasy that enhances the abundance of the fruits of the earth .

The villa overlooks an 11,000 m2 garden with swimming pool and tennis court, which the restoration has rediscovered in its nineteenth-century forms. Crossed by paths lowered than the green areas and enclosed by a high enclosure wall, the park preserves some large hackberry trees, magnolias and yews, a small brick pavilion and the lemon house, which ends with a portico which houses a stone basin, perhaps intended for fish breeding.

In 2017 Villa Bottini La Limonaia participated in the “Tourism & Attractiveness” tender with the funded project “Well-being in the park of Villa Bottini La Limonaia”.