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VISITITALY WHAT TO SEE CASTLES, PALACES AND MANSIONS LOMBARDY PAVIA

Castles of Pavia, palaces and mansions

Visititaly recommends the most important castles, palaces and noble residences of Pavia and surrounding area, the proposals consider a maximum distance of about 30 km from the town. In the territory around Pavia a dense network of manors built in strategic positions branches off and dominate the surrounding valleys, some can be visited, others still used as private homes, and still others are ruins bearing witness to a glorious past. To visit the castles, fortresses and all places related to culture that characterize Pavia, to receive detailed information on opening hours, ticket costs and any guided tours, please consult the official website of the building. If you have visited a castle and wouldlike to share your experience with others, please report it here!

Castles, palaces and mansions

Università

Founded in 1361, it had its headquarters from around 1485 in an old palace of Azzone Visconti. The current building - built over the centuries around the first nucleus, also occupying the fifteenth-century Hospital of San Matteo. The University Palace of Pavia contains an exceptional heritage of cultural heritage collected and preserved throughout its long history. In the Palace we find important collections of historical and scientific interest, unique in their kind. In the archives, it is possible to reconstruct the history of Italian technical and scientific thought and beyond.

Castles, palaces and mansions

Palazzo Botta-Adorno

The palace dates back to the beginning of the 18th century and was commissioned by L. Botta and was one of the most elegant residential homes. Over the centuries it has hosted great historical figures such as Napoleon, Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy, Francis I of Austria and many others. The facade on Piazza Botta has a neoclassical style with eight protruding settlers. Inside there are still many testimonies of the time such as stuccoes and frescoes that decorate the main floor. Surely the jewel of the building is Napoleon's Room that still reserves the frescoes and stuccoes of the Rococo style.

Castles, palaces and mansions

Palazzo Beccaria

The palace dates back to the fifteenth century and originally consisted of a large quadrilateral with turrets in each corner that made it take on the appearance of a castle. The windows are large with elegant window sills decorated with terracotta friezes. Only a few graffiti and fifteenth-century frescoes can still be seen on the southern side, but it retains all its charm thanks to a careful restoration that highlighted the inner courtyard and the monumental staircase.

Castles, palaces and mansions

Palazzo dei Diversi

The construction of the building dates back to the end of the fourteenth century commissioned by Nicolino Dei Diverse. Surely it was one of the most elegant private residences of the time consisting of three floors above ground and a ground porch. Beautiful three-windows with marble columns were located on the first floor among which only one was rebuilt. In the courtyard, you could admire a great crucifix of the '400 that is now kept in the Civic Museum of the Castle.

Castles, palaces and mansions

Palazzo del Maino

The palace dates back to a medieval period, but almost nothing remains of the original core. In 1750 the building was purchased by the Marquis del Maino and then sold to the San Matteo Hospital. The construction reflects the best Pavese architecture of the '700 with small traces of the '300 structure such as sail vaults, terracotta decorations of the atrium and the magnificent marble portal dating back at Bramante. It has its own monumental entrance, the courtyard of honor and the enclosed garden. Currently the building is home to the Technical Services Area of the University of Pavia.

Castles, palaces and mansions

Palazzo Bottigella-Gandini

The construction of Palazzo Bottigella-Gandini dates back to the late 1900s and was designed by G.A. Amadeo. The building rises above a pre-existing building of which remains only the central entrance portal with the initial wooden doors. The façade was painted and decorated in the Baroque period, but today there are no remains of it. Interesting to see is the courtyard, among the most beautiful of the Renaissance Pavese, with a beautiful porch and an elegant veranda on the upper floor.

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