Single family villa, to be refurbished, 2150 m², Piazza, Gussago

This fifteenth-century mansion, albeit in the countryside, is the emblem of a family in the moment of its maximum splendor. Its composed, aristocratic naturalness, without frills of external decorations, which goes away smoothly with those sharp naked arches that never seem to unite, is precisely the mirror of a rich family yes but of ancient tradition. the stone pillar is a cone and after a little more than a meter of stem the attack of the wide arch in the center begins. This sense of strength is necessary to support the first loggia which is made up of pointed arches twice as many as those of the portico, but tall and slender, as the former are squat. in centuries. On the short side in the evening the well opens, ennobled by a frame of the sixteenth century, the windows give light to large rooms; from one of them, the caminada, which has a column in the center supporting the long central beam, a wooden staircase begins recently built for the needs of today's life. understand if there was once, as we suppose, the beamed ceiling to divide the gallery itself from the baltresca above, as is customary. Today the rustic roof truss can be seen uncovered. The rooms overlooking the loggia were very adorned because it was the representative apartment. Starting from the west there is a room on the walls of which you can see traces of monochrome frescoes of the century. XVI; they were eight panels and represented Apollo with various musicians, of modest workmanship. On the fireplace the family crest with the marks of the dignity of bishop. After this, two other large rooms: the large hall with frescoed walls and another room. On all the wooden ceilings with large beams, cordoned decorated with painted tablets, with friezes, coats of arms, animals and human heads, in a still very simple and modest way. This too is an element that can convince us to determine the date of construction in the first half of the century and which bears traces of the sixteenth-century monochrome frescoes on the walls.