Among the earliest examples of pre-Art Nouveau style in Brunate, Villa Rubino still bears the marks of an era when the Counts Crespi of Vaprio d’Adda, one of the great names of Lombard textile industry, chose the village above Como as their own holiday residence.
Built in 1892, it predates by a few years the full flowering of the Art Nouveau style that would later characterise the village’s other villas, placing it at that transitional moment between late-nineteenth-century eclecticism and the more mature forms of the floral taste. The complex is spread across several buildings for a total of 1,200 square metres, set within a 1.2-hectare park dotted with century-old beech trees and fine specimens: a small green lung at the heart of Brunate, still well preserved today thanks to several conservative restoration projects that have retained its original materials.
Located along via Giacomo Scalini, the villa is part of the same trail that also takes in Villa Farneti, Villa Marinoni, Villa Orlandi and the village’s other period residences: a route that lets visitors retrace, on foot, the evolution of Brunate’s architectural taste between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.