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VILLA ANTONA TRAVERSI

Meda Piazza Vittorio Veneto, 4 - 20821 (MB)

  • Mtg rooms 5
  • Pax 180 - 300

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Villa Antona Traversi in Meda, which is 200 years old, stands on a hill that dominates the upper milanese plain. Almost 12 centuries ago this terrace like hilltop area had been selected as the site for Saint Vittore monastery. This Benedictine monastery was founded in about 830 A.D. by Aimone and Vermondo, two illustrious descendants of the Manfredingi lineage, a great feudal family in northern Italy, in fullfillment of a vow made to the Virgin Mary. Their remains are still kept in an urn located under the altar of the Saint Vittore church. In 1194, the Emperor Henry VI and his celebrated wife, the Empress Costanza d’Altavilla, stopped over at this monastery on their return trip from Germany to Sicily.
With the advent of free communes, certain rights had to be relinquished. In 1252, the monastery’s abbess had to give up her feudal rights regarding Meda and acknowledge the comune’s statutes, although the monastery still retained all its ecclesiastical rights: the most important was the right to nominee the parish priest. In 1496, the monastery was the scene of a meeting between the Emperor Maximilian I of the House of Hapsburg and the Duke of Milan, Ludovico il Moro.
The 18th century brought further important and damaging innovations to the monastery. Although it narrowly missed being suppressed by Joseph II, it later succumbed to the much more severe suppression imposed by the Cisalpine Republic, which was founded by the Napoleonic armies. With the issuing of a decree on the 29th of May 1798, the thousand-year-old monastery was closed, and all the nuns were expelled. The following October, the property was put up for auction, with the final bid going to Giovanni Giuseppe Maunier, a rich merchant from Marseilles who was a supplier for the French army. Maunier, however, had no respect whatsoever for what the monastery’s historical and religious value and promptly engaged Leopoldo Pollack, a well known Viennese architect to turn the cenobium into a neoclassical villa. Pollack raised most of the building and put up entirely new structures, including a grandiose front and a surrounding hemicycle, which looks like a large balcony from which one can obtain a sweeping view that goes from the Alps to the Appennines.


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  • Sala del Coro
    • 250 Maximum capacity
    • Maximum capacity 250
    • Space in sq mt 220
    • Built-in stage No
    • Perimeter in mt -
    • Natural daylight No
    • Height in mt -
    Capacity for set up
    • 250
  • La Limonera
    • 180 Maximum capacity
    • Maximum capacity 180
    • Space in sq mt 180
    • Built-in stage No
    • Perimeter in mt -
    • Natural daylight No
    • Height in mt -
    Capacity for set up
    • 180
  • Chiostro portico coperto
    • 300 Maximum capacity
    • Maximum capacity 300
    • Space in sq mt 400
    • Built-in stage No
    • Perimeter in mt -
    • Natural daylight No
    • Height in mt -
    Capacity for set up
    • 300

Meeting equipment

  • Voice and sound amplification
  • Catwalk
  • Lcd - plasm - led screens
  • Mobile screen
  • Video projector


Other available areas

  • Reception area
  • Wardrobe
  • Gardens (sq mt) 4000


Contact details

Contact persons


Address

  • Piazza Vittorio Veneto, 4
  • 20821 - Meda (MB)

Main distances

  • AirportMilano Linate
  • Distance (km)30

Year built

  • 1801

Other services

  • Pets welcome
  • Luggage storage

Parking

  • Outside parking for 70 vehicles free parking
  • Coach parking

Restaurants and catering

  • External catering service with exclusivity



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