Villa Tittoni Traversi hosts company presentations, training sessions, workshops, small meetings, weddings, ceremonies and private parties for up to 300 guests indoors and 500 outdoors. The villa stands at Via Lampugnani 62 in Desio, in the Brianza area north of Milan, and is owned by the town of Desio.
Seminars and company events
The villa rents its historic rooms to companies for client and partner presentations, sales meetings, team-building days and training. A small meeting fits in a single ground-floor room, such as the Gothic room, while larger formats can combine several rooms or take the whole ground floor. The four rooms of the first floor have flexible layouts for exhibitions, small meetings and private parties. An internal car park holds 20 cars.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings, ceremonies and private celebrations are booked through the same room rental service, with the decorated interiors and the park as a backdrop for photos. The villa also offers photo and video shoots as a separate service. Ask the team which rooms can host a ceremony and how the park can be used on the day.
Rooms and capacities
The ground floor has five named rooms, all step-free. The Sala Neoclassica, 120 square meters, looks onto the park and has a carved and gilded coffered ceiling with mythological figures. The Sala delle Colonne, 103 square meters, has two central columns and was restored to its original look after a fire in 1993. The Sala Neogotica, 54 square meters, has medieval-style wood paneling by Pelagio Palagi and gets the first morning light. The Sala Moresca, 43 square meters, was once a tea and conversation room with Middle Eastern decoration. The Sala Neobarocca, 38 square meters, has large mirrors and stucco cherubs. The foyer, with mosaic floors, opens onto the main courtyard. The villa offers set combinations, from pairs of rooms to the full ground floor.
Catering
The official site does not describe an in-house kitchen or a list of approved caterers. Ask the villa for its catering rules when you request a date.
History and setting
A Franciscan convent stood on the site from 1290. In 1651 the Cusani family acquired the property and began a country residence for Milanese nobility. Giuseppe Piermarini, architect to the Habsburg court, designed the main building, and Antonio Villoresi laid out an English-style garden with a large lake. From 1817 the villa passed to the lawyer Giovanni Battista Traversi, and from 1834 Pelagio Palagi remodeled it and added a neo-Gothic tower in the park. Under the Tittoni family, Luca Beltrami built the monumental staircase and the villa hosted diplomatic conferences. The town bought the park in 1952 and the villa in 1975, and the building also houses the municipal library. The park holds more than 700 trees, a Neptune fountain and a small temple.
Getting there
Desio lies in the province of Monza and Brianza, a short drive north of Milan and west of Monza. Parking for 20 cars is available inside the grounds, which helps for a corporate day with speakers and suppliers arriving by car.
