Visit to Casa Macchi, Morazzone, Friday 24 January 2025.
Visit to Casa Macchi, Morazzone, Friday 24 January 2025.
After four years of restoration, FAI, together with the Municipality of Morazzone (VA), inaugurated Casa Macchi (18 December 2022).
Casa Macchi in Morazzone is a typical provincial bourgeois dwelling, which has been preserved intact for one hundred and fifty years and which Maria Luisa Macchi, the sole and last owner, left in her will to the Foundation in 2015, with a generous dowry needed for restoration and management, so that it would become “a living museum that gives lustre to Morazzone”.
Casa Macchi preserves the life of a typical middle-class family, aristocratic but not rich, with simple and traditional customs. Casa Macchi is the exceptional historical testimony of a way of life that has disappeared today, guided by rigid rules, social conventions and good old-fashioned habits.
Casa Macchi opened to the public after four years of work: it was a complex restoration project, involving hundreds of professionals. Everything has been preserved: restored, or sometimes just cleaned for its new function as a house-museum.
The visit, with an English speaking guide, will take place Friday 24 January 2025. Start visit: 10.30 a.m. Costs for a group of 10 persons (guide €90,- and entrance fee) will be €150,-. Per person: €15,-. The more participants there are, the lower the cost pp.
Address: Casa Macchi, Piazza Sant'Ambrogio, 2, 21040 Morazzone VA.
Free Parking: Via XXVI Agosto (in the neighbourhood).