He built a sumptuous palace which some years later was destroyed by a terrible fire, maybe arson. During the sixteenth century, the ruins of the sumptuous Stanga building were restructured by Francesco and, successively, by Ercole Sfondrati who spent the last years of his life in pious religious passion in the villa. On the picturesque peninsula on which the villa rose, he built the church and the convent of the Capuchins (1614), investing enormous capital in the setting of the park, where in a short time new plants were successively introduced amongst which cypress trees and the "Olea fragrans".