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The
18th century Villa Mirabello is situated on a hill of the same name. Its English style garden represents a continuity of  style with that
of Palazzo Estense, so that it was acquired by the Town Council of Varese in 1949.
The first signs of a building in this area date back to 1725. It was an English style villa
designed by the architect Clericetti, and the property, first of Count Gaetano Stampa from Soncino,
of the family Taccioli and Litta Modigliani.
Today the villa houses the Civic Museums, with a reach archeological collection:
prehistoric finds from Isolino  Virginia, from Pizzo Bodio and
from Golasecca, and Roman finds from Angera.
There is also a butterfly collection
of the well known tenor Francesco Tamagno.
In the Archeological Museum an unique piece: a mummy of a 11-12 years old kind, still studied by
the Anatomy and Pathologic Histology Institute of the University of Pisa.
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