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The oratory of Mombello, dedicated to saint Francesco, is a beautiful example of the baroque architecture. It was built by Francesco Croce.
In the past the oratory was connected to the villa by a gallery. The facade was so built in recent times, in '20.

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The 15th of May 1796, Napoleone Bonaparte entered Milan after defeating the Austrian troups.
On 6th of May of the following year Napoleon ended with the armistice of Leoben. While he was waiting for the stipulation of the peace treaty he stayed in the villa of Montebello.
He stayed here from 17th of May to 30th of June.
Napoleone stayed here with his family.
Two of the three sister of Napoleone didn't have a good relationship with Napolenone's wife, that also used to organise lots of parties that caused also a bad relationship with Letizia Ramolino, Napoleone's mother.
Also Napoleone had to care about the restlessness of his sister Paolina.

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In 1865 some patients got transferred from the psychyatric hospital "Senavra" to Mombello due to overcrowding.
At first only the calm patients got transferred to Mombello, but after the closure of Senavra, Mombello psychyatric hospital became the biggest in Lombardy.
To make the patients work, according to ergotherapy, a lot of structures such as the bakery, the workshop and a wood shop have been built .
In 1911 the new director Antonini transformed the structures making them more ventilated and bright.
The most common disease where syphilis, pellagra and alcoholism.
In 1915 WWI veterans got hospitalized due to the trauma caused by the hard experience.
An important story is the one of Albino Benito Bernardi, who was the illegittimate son of Benito Mussolini. He had been hospitalized since he was twenty and died after six years in 1942. His story is described in the book called 'Il figlio perduto' written by Alessandro Gallenzi.
The most common 'treatments' were lobotomy, electroshock and insulin injections.
In 1978 the Basaglia law was approved, it had the aim to shut down all the psychiatryc hospitals. The Mombello one closed definetly in 1999.

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The history of Villa Pusterla Crivelli is striclty  connected to some important historical facts.
Italy, and so the villa, passed through various dominations types like Visconti's and Sforza's in XIV-XVI centuries; Charles VIII and Louis XII, during the descent to Italy; the Lombardy wars between France and Spain ended with the peace of Cateau-Cambresis in 1559.
Then the Austrian Asburgo's domination after 20 years of war between Spain and Austria.
With the Austrian domination  the real estate register was implemented, wanted from Charles VI in 1714, and completed by Mary Terry, who gave it the name.
Since the Carcano's, Arconati's and Crivelli's families, were connected to the  French royalty, Napoleon chose the villa instead of the Villa Reale di Monza as a headquarter during the campaign of Italy, until the 1797 May, when he chose to leave Milan.
The Villa Pusterla Crivelli became a psychiatric hospital, but the events still wave together such as, after WWI, people who went crazy came here to get treatments. Another important story is the one of Albino Benito Bernardi, who was the illegitimate son of Benito Mussolini. He had been hospitalized since he was twenty and died after six years in 1942.
Then, after the Basaglia law in 1978, all the psychiatric hospitals had to shut down, and also the Mombello one, which definitely closed in 1999.

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The massive stair was built by Francesco Croce and commissioned by Stefano Gaetano Crivelli.
This stair substituted another access to the top floors which was collocated in the opposite part of the Villa. The typical style of Francesco Croce was Lombard Baroque.

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The Giovan Angelo Borroni's second fresco

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The Giovan Angelo Borroni's second fresco

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In this fresco there is Ercole who dominates a lion, Nemeo, and it represents Carlo VI.
There is also Giunone in a graveyard, that represents Maria Teresa from Austria that visits the grave of his father (Carlo VI).

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The Giovan Angelo Borroni's first fresco

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The Giovan Angelo Borroni's first fresco

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This fresco represents Saturn with a scythe and the fertility and abundance gods.

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The northen facade was designed by Francesco Croce in a baroque style. The rest of the building, projected by Felice Soave, are in a neoclassical style.
The first colonnade was open on the west facade, commissioned by Anna Visconti, and it have doric columns made of white granite, now is closed.
The second collonade was close with a wooden gate, wanted by Luigi arconati, now is open.

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Interventions of trasformation of Villa Pusterla Crivelli.

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Interventions of trasformation of Villa Pusterla Crivelli.

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In 1580 Anna Visconti asked Martino Bassi to transform Villa Pusterla Crivelli.
In particular, he projected the building of a porch on the west facade, that was closed when the villa became the psychiatric hospital headquarter, and the building of the second porch, which had a terrace on it.
In 1750, Stefano Gaetano Crivelli asked Francesco Croce to project:
-the rebuilding of the northen wing;
-the building of the stairs in the northen wing;
-the reconstruction of the towers;
-the creation of an avenue and a space in front of the noble court;
-the creation of an Italian-style garden;
-the trasformation of the oratory.
With Carlo Felice Soave, the facade got redesigned in a neoclassical style.
When the Villa became the headquarters of the psychiatric hospital, it underwent some modification because of the new function.

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The italian-style garden (in the past and today)

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The italian-style garden (in the past and today)

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The Italian-style garden was a Renaissance one and all was balanced and harmonious, following geometry and simmetry. There were also fountines and water games.
Today the garden is designed by the teachers and the students of the agriculture school 'Luigi Castiglioni'.

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Luigi Arconati's heir commissioned the massive wall with the terrace, but it wasn't the same as today. Francesco Croce transformed it by adding many things such as a massive stair in the middle of the facade.
He created also the perfect background for the Italian-style garden.

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Why  is our villa  known as villa Pusterla Crivelli? In 1838 Cesare Cantù published a novel called 'Margherita Pusterla' which is about tales and intrigues at Milan court in the Visconti's era. The novel deals with the marriage between Margherita Pusterla and Francesco Pusterla. Luchino Visconti,  Margherita's cousin, was attracted by her, but she refused him. When Francesco Pusterla discovered what Luchino Viscondi was doing, he started to participate to a conspiration to take Visconti away from the throne. He failed and escaped to Avignone (that was the main location of the Papal' state). When he returned to Italy, he got arrested and Margerita was well up alive because she persisted in refusing Luchino. Actually, there is no proof about Visconti's permanence in this villa.
In  the late Middle Ages it was a castle that became a palace that the Carcano's acquired at the end of the XVIth century.
In 1543 the palace passed to the Arconati's, that worked on it and trasformed it into a gracious country residence. The main supporter of those changes was Anna Visconti, that also commissioned other massive works performed on Martino Bassini's project, that was countinued by Luigi Arconati.