CERNOBBIO, Villa Bernasconi

You are in the center of what is still called the Cittadella della Seta where, for decades, the area's silk production was concentrated.

You should know that Cernobbio owes a great deal to a great entrepreneur, Davide Bernasconi, who breathed new life into the local economy with the opening of the first Bernasconi textile factory in 1872. In just a few years, the company grew from 60 to 600 looms with almost 1,000 employees working in factories in the provinces of Como, Sondrio, Milan and Varese.

In Cernobbio, in addition to the warehouses for production activities, around his villa which was built in 1905 by the architect Alfredo Campanini, the entrepreneur also built housing for employees and provided services such as a kindergarten, which still exists today.

After the Second World War, the weaving industry went into crisis and in 1971 the Bernasconi company, which had already sold the villa in 1955, closed down for good....