Single family villa Strada Monterosso 42, Acqui Terme

Near Acqui Terme, designed on the soft profile of the Monferrato hills, a splendid Villa by Marcello Piacentini and other rationalist architects.
There are two main buildings, around which one of the most extraordinary modern gardens in Italy is articulated, created by Pietro Porcinai and surrounded by 26 hectares of owned vineyards and woods.
The spectacular Italian garden, the work of the well-known landscape architect, was awarded the most beautiful garden in Europe at the prestigious "European Garden Award" in 2011.

The only example in Italy of close collaboration between architects, painters, sculptors and patrons to give life to the creation of a manor house, the real estate compendium is spread over two main bodies, two service villas and a spectacular mausoleum and is characterized by the presence of important works of art.
In 1920 the Ottolenghi Counts, Arturo and Herta von Wedekind zu Horst, entrusted the design of Villa Ottolenghi first to Fede rico d'Amato and later to the famous architect Marcello Piacentini. The Ottolenghi patronage brought a good number of artists to Monterosso: Ferruccio Ferrazzi, Fortunato Depero, Adolfo Wildt, Libero Andreotti, Fiore Martelli, Arturo Martini, Rosario Murabito, Venanzo Crocetti. It was precisely at Villa Ottolenghi that Arturo Martini produced and brought some of his most important works including "Il Tobiolo, Adamo ed Eva, i Leoni di Monterosso... ".

Not far from the villa is the Mausoleum, today the "Temple of Hertha " with its evergreen park obtained from a precise scenographic design that takes the name of "Earthly Paradise".
The enormous portal of the Temple, in bronze, nickel and engraved copper, a monumental work by the masters Ernesto and Mario Ferrari, acts as prelude to the beauty of the frescoes by Ferruccio Ferrazzi and the mosaics created by the mosaic school of Ravenna.

Then, around the villa, in addition to the aforementioned formal garden, the well, the studies, the cistern and the promenade that runs along the perimeter of the complex, the graffiti, the wisteria pergola, the swimming pool, the cellar... stages of a journey of discovery that surprises for the attention to detail.