One of the most important historical buildings in Milanese Brianza, Villa Antona Traversi in Meda was built in the early 19th century, transforming one of the oldest and most glorious sacred places in the region, the women's monastery of San Vittore, into a noble residence.
Fortunately, from the transformation, entrusted to the architect Leopold Pollack, the beautiful Church of San Vittore, attached to the villa, one of the most shining gems of Brianza's artistic heritage, was saved.
Bought in 1836 by the Traversi family, the villa is still inhabited by its descendants, the Antona Traversi Grismondi. In addition to the church, which preserves magnificent Lombard Renaissance frescoes, the beautiful neoclassical rooms on the first floor, the Sala del Coro, with frescoes by Bernardino Luini and his school, and the rich historical archives, one of the most important private archives in Lombardy, are worth mentioning.
