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The oratory of Mombello is a beautiful example of baroque's art. It was built by Francesco Croce. Before the oratory was connected to the Villa  by a tunnel; it was possible to enter to the oratory by the Villa.

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On 15th may 1796, Napoleone Bonaparte, in his first italy campaign ,after beating the Austrian troops, entered Milan succesfully. On 6th may 1797, a few days after the  first anniversary of the battle on the Lodi bridge, Bonaparte finished successfully the war with Leoben armistice; therefore, waiting for stipulating the treaty of peace, He moved from his residence to Milan on the milanese countryside of Groane. The locality selected was Montebello on the Villa Pusterla Crivelli, Napoleon stayed at the villa for 6 months. He also brought his family to the villa: his wife Giuseppina, his mother Letizia Ramolino, his two brothers, andhis three sisters. The villa was crowed of servants and messengers. The life was a sequence of parties, luxurious banquets and political meetings . But the life in the court wasn't easy: Elisa and Paolina found a tempestive relationship with Giuseppina, older to Napoleon to 7 years and two sons. And Napoleon had to control the restlessness of two lively sisters, above all Paolina.

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IN 1865 Cesare Castiglioni, the director of the province mental institution of Milan "Senavra", by then overcrowded, proposed to transfer some patients to Mombello, at Villa Crivelli. The fist patients that arrived were the quietest, which were used in productive activities like the work in the field. It became the biggest psychiatric hospital in Lombardy of its time, mostly after the closing of Senavra. Later, the hospital became large: they built a pharmacy, a bakery, a weavery, a laundry, a hand made laboratory, a work shop, like the carpentry, other sectors, a theatre. The new buildings would have to manage with a lot of patients, that in some cases arrived to contain 4000, and the personnel. It was a real country! Squad of patients, under the control of the personnel, worked in some activities, for the precepts of ergotherapy. Since 1911  professor Antonini became director, and he stayed at Mombello till 1930 and brought improvements and exstensions to the area of the hospital, mostly with the builing of the sectors with good ventilation and brigtness.The teacher Antonini, student of Lombroso, brought his massive experience like a director of psychiatric hospital and  the his wide knowledge on the cultural anthropology of criminology.
The illness more diffused was the syphilis, the pellagra, due mainly to alimentation

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It was realized by Francesco Croce on Stefano Gaetano Crivelli's commission

It was there because there were no other ways to go on the other side of the bulding.
Viggiù stone has been used as  architectonic style, classic for Croce, is the Barocchetto lombardo.

THE FRESCOS BY GIOVAN ANGELO BORRONI

In this fresco made by Borroni, important cremonese painter, we can see a winged old man, thats hold a schyte, that symbolizes the shortness of life. The roses have the same meaning.

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The botanic of the Agrarian school with a contribute of the operators of the school company. The ornamental plants have been chosen for their blooms

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The terrace wall was built by Luigi's hair, but was really diffrent from what we see now, we can see it in a 600' painting

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In 1719 Arconati's villa became property of  the Crivelli's.
It was Stefano Gaetano Crivelli who directed the  works that transformed the building into our time beauty, designed by Francesco Croce, that, in fact had projected the stairs in the entrance.
Without Giuseppe the villa wouldn't have been in its brigther periods.
In 1786 Ferdinando IV king of two Sicilies kingdom stayed here twice.
Here in the second half of the seventh century, Luigi Castiglioni, a relevant person in the Enlightened Lombardy, stayed here  and gave his name to the institute in 2015,
In 1797, from may to november the villa became a militian base of Napoleon's family and also a court.
In 1819 on 17th July Ferdinando Crivelli sold the villa to Catena's brothers in order to pay his father's debts.

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With Carlo Felice Soave, very important architect of second middle 700', the  West and South facades have been redrawn in neoclassic styles.
When the villa became a psychiatric hospital there were changes at the building for a new purpose:  among the  interventions, together with the closing  of  the portico, the raise of towers (restaured to now look).

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In the following years the villa has been sold again, but from 30' to 50' it passed horrible periods.
In 1865 on 11th February the property passed to Milan possess, where it was employed as a Psychiatric Hospital.
In 1978 Basaglia law closed the hospital.
Since 1978 the Villa became the palace where the school was erected. In the following years the villa has been sold again, but from 30' to 50' it passed horrible periods.
In 1865 on 11th February the property passed to Milan possess, where it was employed as a Psychiatric Hopital.
In 1978 Basaglia law closed the hospital.
From 1978 the Villa became the palace where the school was erected.

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Around 1580 Anna Visconti made the project of riedification of the villa with the help of Martino Bassi, who worked on Naviglio and the Duomo of Milan.
The project was followed and completed by Luigi Arconati.A porch was built  on the west side , from where the noble people acceed, later it  was closed when the palace became the Hospital, for making  it  possible to pass from the male side to the female one, but keeping them apart, building wanted from Luigi. The second porch with a balcony above, that kept the passage from the north to the south wing, was closed by a big wooden door and an arch made of iron.
The noble stair was on  the south wing.

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In 1750 Stefano Gaetano Crivelli asked Francesco Croce his help to make important projects.
The main projects:
The northern wing reconstruction giving a lot of extra space.
The building of the northern big stair.
He made the towers bigger.
He created a path in front of the noble court, and projected the actual look of the little towers that you can see from the garden.
The oratory  was trasformed , it maintained the orignal rectangular body.

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The name Villa Pusterla Crivelli, comes from Cesare Cantù's novel entitled "Margherita Pusterla" published in 1838.
Cesare Cantu's novel thought the story about the milanese palace intrigues that had to take place there in the villa.
Actually no traces have been found about the Pusterlas presence here.
The castle from the early Middle Ages, in the first years of 1500 became property of the Carcano's family, that turned it into a palace.
In 1543 the palace moved to Arconati's property, that transformed it into an elegant countryside residence, all of that was caused by Anna Visconti, in 80' she followed the works, on Martino Bassi's Projects, that had been followed by his son Luigi Arconati.