Villa Paradiso, already Boas

At the beginning of the 17th century the villa belonged to Giovanni Battista Boasso; the owner, in order to make the access easier and also to buy a labourer's house for an agricultural use, bought in 1736 from Carlo Braida a vineyard next to his and exchanged two days and a half of land with archbishop Mess.

The law man Boasso died in 1751 leaving all his properties to the San Giovanni Hospital. Soon the hospital sold the vineyard and the villa to Giuseppe Felice Bertalazzone D'Arache who made magnificent works of reconstruction, re-building almost all the ancient Boas.

In 1854, with the extinction of the Arache, the villa passed to the earl Lorenzo Castellani Varzi, who embellished the building with a grat part of the painting inherited from the uncle and put in order and elegant semicircular terracing on the hill dominating the city.

At the end of the 19th century the villa underwent a series of owners: to the Biandrà of Reaglie, to the Barel of Sant'Albano, to the Gloria, to the Canera of Salasco, to the Asinari of San Marzano.
It was bought, then, by Ermanno Gurgo Saliche who sold it to the actual owners, the Colombo.

In the 20th century, the country portico at the side of the chapel was built and with his mole, it does not allow us to read the ancient entrance hall. At the side of the railing there is the villa's chapel, partly private, partly for public use, ascribed to Bernardo Vittone, while it remains unknown the author of the project of the villa.