The choice of Monza was due to the salubrity of the air and the amenity of the country, but also because it represents a symbolic link between Vienna and Milan, being the place on the way to the imperial capital.

Later, the young Archduke Ferdinand ordered many additions to the complex, again by Piermarini, and used the villa as his country residence until the arrival of the French army in 1796.

The new Viceroy commissioned the architect Luigi Canonica to improve the structure of the villa, including the construction of the theatre on the north wing.

With the fall of the First French Empire (1814), Austria annexed the Italian territories to the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia and Monza was included in the province of Milan.

The villa was a very welcome gift and was immediately used by the royal couple; after the death of King Victor Emmanuel, modernization works, cured by the architects Achille Majnoni d'Intignano and Luigi Tarantola, were undertaken.

After the mournful event, the new king, Victor Emmanuel III no longer wanted to use the Royal Villa, closing it and transferring most of the furnishings to the Quirinal Palace.

In addition, the project provided for the redevelopment of the Belvedere curated by the architect Michele De Lucchi and the restoration of the rooms on the ground floor.

Now you can visit the royal apartments of Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy that still retain part of the original furnishing, in addition to the representative rooms and other private apartments set up for the visit of Wilhelm II, German Emperor in 1889, for the Prince of Naples, the future Victor Emmanuel III, and the Duchess of Genoa, Princess Elisabeth of Saxony, mother of Queen Margherita.

The palace complex includes the Cappella Reale, or the "Royal Chapel", the Cavallerizza (horse-shed), the Rotonda dell'Appiani, the Teatrino di Corte ("Small Court Theatre") and the Orangerie.

The rooms at the first floor include grand salons and halls, and the Royal apartments of King Umberto I and of Queen Margherita of Savoy.

The stylistic essentiality of the building is due not only to precise taste choices but also to political reasons: the court in Vienna preferred to avoid excessive ostentation of wealth and power in an occupied country.

Commissioned by Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of his wedding to Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d'Este, it was designed on the model of the Orangerie of the Schönbrunn Palace.

Annually, on 24 June in conjunction with the patron saint of the city, San Giovanni Battista, a fireworks show is organized to the rhythm of the music on the lawn of the Villa Reale or inside the Park of Monza.

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