Description
Villa Miravalle was originally the home of the Ducal family of Leuchtenberg, relatives of the rulers of Bavaria. It was built in 1904 to the futuristic design of architect Guido Landi from Carrara, whose work had to face and assimilate the changes in 20th century society.
Due to the decreasing income of aristocratic families, new types of buildings needed to be designed. Nineteenth-century aristocratic villas were no longer sustainable for the more moderate lifestyle of the aristocracy of the new century, and Villa Miravalle represents the new type of building that would be constructed for the entire social class from that era onwards: the bourgeois villa. The residence has an innovative structure. Instead of developing in length, it develops in height so as to build on less land, and a turret completes the building.
Today, Villa Miravalle is owned by the Honorati family. The style of the building is somewhere between Art Nouveau and modernism, and the residence is emblematic of a century that was forced to question its own canons, subverting them and renewing them with the typical ingenuity and creativity of Italian design.
Location
Villa Miravalle, Jesi
Information
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