{"id":18442,"date":"2026-05-04T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.navigazionelaghi.it\/?p=18442"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:58:09","slug":"villa-taranto-the-prefectures-renewed-halls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.navigazionelaghi.it\/en\/2026\/05\/villa-taranto-the-prefectures-renewed-halls\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa Taranto: the prefecture’s renewed halls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thanks to a careful restyling and the arrival of furniture confiscated from the mafia, Captain McEacharn\u2019s home has now officially reopened to the public<\/h4>\n\n

29March was a historic date for Verbania, with the inauguration of Villa Taranto\u2019s great halls, the seat of the prefecture. And all this in an event which included a journey by institutional figures and citizens on the Piemonte steamship which docked in front of the villa\u2019s botanical gardens. Having been without Captain McEacharn\u2019s original furniture for many years, the rooms are now furnished after untiring attempts to find period furniture.\u2018We started by studying what this villa might have looked like, as the building was given to the state empty,\u2019 explained Prefect Matilde Pirrera. To fill this interior vacuum the state agency for confiscated goods assigned the villa over 100 pieces – vases, sofas and statues – taken from organised criminals.\u2018The idea was to highlight the profound synergy between all the bodies involved, including the Prefecture, Ente Navigazione Laghi and the Carabinieri,\u2019 continued the Prefect, highlighting the way the project is bringing the story of this Scottish man who decided to invest in the villa in the 1930s back to life, with authentic period objects on loan to the site. The work of Associazione Carabinieri volunteers means that visits to the rooms can finally now be booked from April, as part of a unique itinerary which links the beauties of the botanical gardens to the civic value of lawfulness.<\/p>\n\n

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Sofas, vases, furniture: a noble use of assets confiscated from the mafia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Villa Taranto in a period photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n

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