Procaccini Castle
The most ancient part of the castleoriginated as a fortress on a hill, is the great tower, from which you controlled a long section of Po (Cuneulus super Padum). From 1700 to 1730 it was enlarged and transformed from a medieval fortress into a real eighteenth-century Royal Palace. The work was carried out by the will and funding of the owner at the time, Cardinal Agostino Cusani Visconti (1655 - 1715)that was Ambassador of the Republic of Venice and the Pope at the Court of Louis XIV in Paris, as well as Bishop of Pavia. After this magnificent work, the Castle of Chignolo was called and known throughout the world as the "Versailles of Lombardy."
The most ancient part of the castleoriginated as a fortress on a hill, is the great tower, from which you controlled a long section of Po (Cuneulus super Padum). From 1700 to 1730 it was enlarged and transformed from a medieval fortress into a real eighteenth-century Royal Palace. The work was carried out by the will and funding of the owner at the time, Cardinal Agostino Cusani Visconti (1655 - 1715)that was Ambassador of the Republic of Venice and the Pope at the Court of Louis XIV in Paris, as well as Bishop of Pavia. After this magnificent work, the Castle of Chignolo was called and known throughout the world as the "Versailles of Lombardy."