"Su l'urne per memoria perenne". The Sommariva Oratory of Tremezzo

The Sommariva Oratory is part of Villa Carlotta's area in Tremezzina, including the wonderful villa and botanical garden.

The structure, which arose as a private chapel attached to the villa, was purchased in 1801 by Giovanni Battista Sommariva. He was a rising personality of the Napoleonic government and a collector of neoclassical works of art.

The Sommariva family held the ownership of the residence until 1843, when the last heir Emilia Sommariva Seillière sold it to Marianna of Orange-Nassau. However, possession of the Oratory where the funerary monuments of her father-in-law Giovanni Battista and her husband Louis were placed was retained.