Milano Marittima and Cervia - There are 60 typical holiday villas, built in Art Nouveau style, still visible in the first strip of Milano Marittima and Cervia.
They were conceived as "villas in the pine grove" to be built to give life to Milano Marittima, a new tourist resort created in 1912 by the Milano Marittima limited company for the summer holidays of the families of the Milan bourgeoisie. The Milanese painter and urban planner Giuseppe Palanti, who drafted the master plan for Milano Marittima, planned the construction of about 30 villas over a decade to shape what he had imagined as a "garden city", on the model of the Howardian garden cities, in which man and environment could coexist in harmony.
A dozen types of houses were planned, inspired by the liberty and neo-Gothic style, which did not exceed 2 floors in height and ranged from the cheapest model to the most expensive and sought after one.
The Palanti master plan provided for the construction of these villas also in the coastal strip of Cervia, in the area south to the current Viale Milazzo.
Among the best preserved, the villa that belonged to Palanti himself, on viale Due Giugno.