Orio Litta, Villa Cavazzi Litta

The villa appears monumental and grandiose, whether you approach it from the town and see it from the front, or whether you see it from the garden side, arriving from the countryside: in fact the body of the building stands out. It is raised in relation to the street level, being located on a slight rise.
Brought into being by the Cavazzi family of Somaglia, it already appears in the Austrian land register of 1723, although it was only finished in 1743.
The villa is organised on a U-shaped floor plan, being both unitary and symmetrical. In the axis of the entrance door, on whose pilasters are represented “Ceres” and “Pomona”, goddesses of the harvest, the main body of the building stands on three floors, with a portico using five arches.
The interior is decorated with stucco and frescos, which suggest enlarged spaces on the ceilings of the salon and the rooms on the ground and first floors.
There are also two of the four seasons, the other two paintings having been removed and sold in the last century.
Because of the similarities which connect this villa with works by Giovanni Ruggeri, above all the villa Alari Cernusco on the Naviglio, this one too has been attributed to the Roman architect, who was active in Lombardy in the early eighteenth century.
Probably, however, Ruggeri did not begin it, but only intervened in the finishing and final definition.