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.