Legend has it that this splendid palace was the castle of the Unnamed described by Manzoni in ‘I Promessi Sposi’. The heart of the building: Palazzo Vecchio dates back to the late 16th century and was built on pre-existing fortifications. Recently restored, it houses the municipal headquarters on the first floor.
The main floor offers numerous frescoed rooms, making it one of the most successful pages of Lombard baroque. The reception rooms feature frescoes dedicated to dynastic splendor, particularly in the so-called throne room, dated 1675, in which the most illustrious members of the Visconti family stand out on high pedestals in the form of painted monochrome statues.
The Hall of the Unnamed once housed the family picture gallery, while the smaller rooms offer fresco decoration only in the upper part, adjacent to the wooden coffered ceilings, with allegorical and mythological scenes.
The grand staircase, the result of a refined 18th-century intervention, is entirely frescoed with scenes dedicated to the exploits of Hercules, with allegorical female figures, and with illusionistic architectural quadratures, while the ceiling is dominated by the apotheosis of the Visconti dynasty among the Olympian gods.