Royal Villa of Monza

The Royal Villa of Monza ( Italian: Villa Reale ) is a classical palace and former imperial residence of the Habsburgs.

History

The castle was built in 1777-1780 by order of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa by the imperial architect Giuseppe Piermarini. It initially served her son, the Governor-General of Lombardy, Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria -Este next to the residence in Milan as a country residence ( 1780-1796 ). Later, it was among other things, the main residence of the Napoleonic viceroy of Italy, and together with the park is a favored retreat of the Italian kings from 1861.

The park of Monza has a size of 688 hectares and is located at the Royal Villa in the north of the city. Thus, it is not itself the famous Central Park in New York in the shadows, as the park is more than two and a half times as large.