 | Villa Argentina
The building was built in 1868 in a large garden located in Via A. Fratti, at the corner of Via A. Vespucci, in the residential quarter known as the "quattro venti" of Viareggio.
The architect Alfredo Belluomini, in 1926 he realized the project of expansion and renovation, while the painter Galileo Chini intervenes with numerous decorations both external and internal, which characterize the facades along the first floor, and are perhaps the most extensive and representative of the his work, with panels with geometric motifs alternating with decorations with figures of cherubs and birds and floral festoons in a very interesting succession from the compositional point of view. These decorations are very similar to those made by Chini for the "Berzieri" spa in Salsomaggiore.
Subsequently, the villa was transformed into a hotel and therefore underwent an extension in the rear part to the north, until it faced the façade on Via A. Fratti, in adherence to the existing one.
The architectural forms assumed by the extension reflect the characters and the type of the existing building, without any ceramics or decorations on the façade, while the tower with a view towards the sea is the most significant element of the new building.
Also inside the villa, Galileo Chini has certainly worked, above all in the main hall on the ground floor, where rich decorations with silver stuccos are the backdrops of the great wall painting of G. Biasi, built in the 1920s and entitled "Departure for hunting to the tiger ".
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