In Castelmarte, a boundary wall of probable medieval origin still marks the perimeter of Villa Ferrario today: a detail that hints at how much further back this building’s roots reach than its present appearance suggests.
Located at via Roma 16, at the heart of the small Brianza municipality, the villa has passed through the centuries to become, in recent times, the seat of the Municipality of Castelmarte: a use that has allowed its structure to be preserved and made it, in effect, accessible to anyone with reason to visit the municipal offices, an uncommon case among the historic residences of the Lario area.
The perimeter wall surrounding it, attributed to a medieval origin, is probably what remains of an older defensive structure on which the villa was later built: a valuable clue for anyone who enjoys reading a building’s history even from its simplest details, such as a stone wall that has passed through centuries of change before reaching us today.