About

Since its construction, Villa Ferrari, a classic Italian villa, once known as the “Palazzo,” has been a place of happiness.

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Its charm lies in the greenery that surrounds it—a lush, fertile landscape where every plant, flower, and blade of grass seems to flourish effortlessly, bursting with color and life. The Po River flows nearby, just eight kilometers away. On summer evenings, when the silence is broken only by the croaking of frogs, one can hear its distant, slow, and solemn breath—mirroring the broad flow of Italy’s greatest river.

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The history of Villa Ferrari is reflected in the three families and various individual owners who have succeeded one another over the centuries, from its presumed construction by Count Ludovico Magio in the late 16th or early 17th century to the present day.

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According to careful archival research, the Villa, or “Palazzo,” before being purchased by Giuseppe Ferrari in 1887 from Marquis Alessandro Trecchi and his aunt Teresa Trecchi Araldi Erizzo, served as both a summer residence and the family seat of one of the oldest noble families of Cremona, the Magio Counts. The Villa and its vast estate passed, through the female line of inheritance, in 1830 to another prominent noble family of Cremona, the Marquis Trecchi.

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Situated in the village of Gussola, the Villa is a stone’s throw from Casalmaggiore, the town of smugglers where Fabrizio del Dongo—the hero of The Charterhouse of Parma—sought refuge while being pursued by the guards of Ranuccio Farnese; from Sabbioneta, the fortified citadel of Vespasiano Gonzaga; and from Colorno, the “little Versailles” of the Bourbons. Geographically, it sits at the center of a triangle formed by some of Italy’s most beautiful cities: Parma, Mantua, and Cremona, of which Gussola is a part.