An astronomical observatory in Milan, Italy, built inside the historic Palazzo Brera in 1764 by the Jesuit astronomer Roger Boscovich. Control passed to the Austrian Habsburgs after the Jesuit order was suppressed in 1773, then to the Italian government after unification in 1861; astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli used its telescopes, including an 8-inch refractor installed in 1875, for his influential observations of Mars. It has been part of Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics since 2001.
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