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Villa Verdi

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Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Villa Verdi
Phone:
+39 0523 830000

Hours:
Sunday9:30am - 11:45am, 2pm - 6pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday9:30am - 11:45am, 2pm - 6pm
Wednesday9:30am - 11:45am, 2pm - 6pm
Thursday9:30am - 11:45am, 2pm - 6pm
Friday9:30am - 11:45am, 2pm - 6pm
Saturday9:30am - 11:45am, 2pm - 6pm


Villa Verdi is the house that composer Giuseppe Verdi owned from 1848 to the end of his life in 1901. It is located in the village of Sant'Agata in the comune of Villanova sull'Arda in the Italian province of Piacenza less than five miles from the village of Le Roncole, where he was born in 1813, and the town of Busseto where he lived from 1824. After buying the estate on which he began to build his house in 1848 and, after various stops and starts, it was completed in 1880. Originally, the house was occupied by his parents, but, after the death of his mother, his father returned to Busseto. Verdi and Giuseppina Strepponi, the opera singer with whom he lived prior to their 1859 marriage, moved into the Villa in 1851. Verdi extended the original house on the property by adding two wings with terraces to the front, plus greenhouses, a chapel, and garages for coaches in the rear. Also, much of both Strepponi's and Verdi's time was taken up with considerable expansion of the parkland surrounding the house and the planting of many trees, some quite exotic in their origin. Apart from his visits to European cities, sometimes wintering in Genoa, and part of the winters of 1862 and 1863 in Russia for the premiere of La forza del destino, most of Verdi's life was lived at the Villa. After Strepponi's death in 1897, Verdi spent less time there. He personally oversaw the management of the estate and ran a profitable farming business.
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