BenBevuti at Villa Imbonati Cavallasca

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Saturday, March 2nd at 5:30 pm, the BENBEVUTI event will take place at Villa Imbonati, Cavallasca. The event is organized by the FAI Youth Delegation of Como and includes a guided tour and tasting of wines from the Galleria Alcolica di Saronno by Roberto Stabile with an A.I.S. Sommelier.

SELECTED WINES FOR TASTING

• Spumante Millesimato Brut Trento D.O.C. 2013
• Sangiovese Colli Romagna Centrale D.O.P. 2015
• Amarone della Valpolicella D.O.C.G. 2012
• Malvasia di Bosa Dolce D.O.P. 2013

DRESS CODE: Carnival Chic.
The event will also take place in the event of rain.

Registrations are valid by February 28th by writing an email to como@faigiovani.fondoambiente.it (Como Delegation) until places are sold out.
Registration fee: € 15 for all FAI members and for non-FAI students aged 18 to 35. Instead € 20 for the participation for non-registered FAI over 35.

VILLA IMBONATI OF CAVALLASCA

Villa Imbonati it was built in Cavallasca between 1656 and 1657 by Calo Antonio Imbonati, a rich businessman, on the occasion of his wedding with the Como Giulia Odescalchi, cousin of the future Pope Innocent XI.
Over time, Villa Imbonati hosted numerous writers and scholars of prominence in the Lombardy and beyond, such as Verri, Beccaria, Parini (and more recently Pirandello).
The most famous was Alessandro Manzoni, who stayed in 1805 and dedicated the famous poem In death of Carlo Imbonati to the latter, at the time owner of the villa and friend of the mother Giulia Beccaria.
Then the Butti and the Belgian baron Bayet followed, at the beginning of the 1800s.
The building presents important cycles of wall paintings, centered on biblical, esoteric and mythological themes, and to enrich the complex a splendid terraced park and two gardens, one in the Italian of the mid-1700s and one in the English of the early 1900s. .
Currently the structure, formerly the Municipality of Cavallasca, houses the Municipal Library.