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CHATEAU DORADO

Ref: 1202
Castle
2,500 m2 constructed area.
29,000 m2 plot.
Sales: On request
Rooms. . . . 30
Green areas. . . .
Energy Rating: Pending certification
A former fortress is looking for a new owner. One of the few defensive structures dating from before the 12th century that has remained in the same family for centuries.
Located 1 hour to the west of Milan airport, it features an imposing central fortification around which the entire building grew.
Archaeological excavations have shown that the castle was severely damaged by fire in the thirteenth century, and then rebuilt over the following centuries. Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it was transformed from a fortification into a stately home, but without losing any of its original military architectural features.
Description

Built to maintain control over the entrance to the plain, the castle tower represented the advanced point of a vast, organised and well thought-out defence system.

The tower had a number of advantages:

🎇 an independent well,

🎇 a view that dominated the plain

🎇 a garrison less than a day's walk from Vercelli and the other castles belonging to the same family.

This fortress-tower, now at the centre of the inner courtyard, is one of the parts of the castle that is no longer in use and could be rehabilitated.

The estate has been in constant evolution:

- In 1559, the property began its transformation from fortress to patrician palace, raising the castle one storey above the original, coinciding with the battlements.

- Between 1608 and 1610, a major renovation of the entire medieval complex was undertaken, giving rise to the Fiamminghini fresco cycles and the Outer Shroud. The renovation was completed in 1710.

- In 1922, a new restoration of the castle began. Finally, from 1988 to 1991, a series of renovations included the restoration of the oldest parts.

This complex of 3 buildings has 30 rooms, 6 bedrooms, and 1500m2 to rehabilitate.