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It is located in Mamiamo, south of Parma, since 1990 Villa Magnani Rocca, also known as “Villa dei Capovolari, is the location of Fondazione Magnani Rocca, museum and art gallery deriving from the collection of Luigi Magnani, art critic and collector, with an extraordinary art collection from the Middle Ages till the 20^th century with masterpieces of Gentile da Fabriano, Albrecht Dürer, Vittore Carpaccio, Tiziano, Rubens, Van Dyck, Francisco Goya, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cèzanne, Giorgio Morandi (50 works), Giorgio De Chirico, Filippo De Pisis, Gino Severini, Alberto Burri, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Nicolas de Sta‘l, Lippo di Dalmasio, Filippo Lippi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Lorenzo Costa, Martin Schongauer and sculptures of Antonio Canova and Lorenzo Bartolini.
The complex has an ancient history: in 1405 the feud of Mamiano belonged to Rossi di San Secondo; then in 1556 the Farnese family gave the whole tenure to the Sforza di Santafiora, who owned it till the end of the 18^th century and they had built the first nucleus of the villa, it was modified again in the 19^th century, the lemon house was built at the side of the villa in those times.
Giuseppe Magnani became the owner in 1941 and he had built a new building to host art exhibitions.

The park
A romantic park of 12 hectares surrounds the villa: the original aspect was deeply changed towards 1880, when it was transformed into an English style park. A sinuous path develops in the garden, among centuries old trees with informal locations and groups of bushes, till the small lake. The tall arboreal species are prevalent, among them there are Cedrus atlantica, Cedrus libani, Sequoia sempervirens, Quercus robur and Platanus hybrida.
Two areas have been dedicate to the Italian style garden, with geometrical flowerbeds decorated with box hedges. Behind the villa, a wide meadow is crossed  by a perspective of six ionian, marble columns coming from a church of Southern Italy destroyed during the Second World War. The garden has been also populated with animals such as peacocks and other species.

The works exposed in Villa dei Capolavori
The masterpieces of Gentile da Fabriano, Albrecht Dürer, Vittore Carpaccio, Tiziano, Rubens, Van Dyck, Francisco Goya, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cèzanne, Giorgio Morandi (50 works), Giorgio De Chirico, Filippo De Pisis, Gino Severini, Alberto Burri, Johann Heinrich Füssli, Nicolas de Sta‘l, Lippo di Dalmasio, Filippo Lippi, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Lorenzo Costa, Martin Schongauer e sculture di Antonio Canova and Lorenzo Bartolini are shown here.

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