Villa Pallavicino was founded as a private residence in 1855. This was followed in 1862 by the acquisition by the noble Genoese Pallavicino family, who enlarged the estate, built carriage roads, adorned the park with statues and transformed the simple residence into the splendid 19th-century villa in neoclassical style that still stands on the hill today. The Borromeo management began in 2017, the year in which a series of restoration and improvement works were started on the animal areas as well as the tree-lined avenues.