History

The building, strongly desired by Blessed Armida Barelli (1882-1952), a central figure in the Italian Catholic movement of the 20th century, was erected in 1939 to a design by engineer Pier Fausto Barelli and architect Giovanni Muzio, a leading exponent of the Novecento artistic current; enlarged in the 1960s, it was subsequently modernised. Owned by the Secular Institute of the Missionaries of the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, it was conceived as a place of formation and reflection.