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Gravedona - Palace Gallio

the earth of Gravedona not only marks it its cospicuo historical rank with the exemplary religious building of Saint Maria of the Tiglio, but with the little distant Palace Gallio, noble dwelling of Bartolomeo Gallio, Cardinal of Santa Romana Church born in Como.

Conte and sir of Three Pievi di Gravedona, Sorico and Dongo, that attracted from the mild of the place it made to construct, probably towards 1583-84, its dwelling, completed it seems in 1586.

Planned of Pellegrino Tibaldi the native architect of the Valsolda that was predelight of Carl Borromeo for the construction of numerous churches in the Milan one and also ispiratore of that extraordinary one was erected with the title it of the Saint Cross aloft Vitale, today Canton Ticino, on the Ceresio.

the Palace Gallio seems a fortified castle that it is born from the system centers closed them, locked between towers illeggiadrite angle irons but from openings and roof-terraces, with the prospiciente forehead the lake Como from the measured curvilinear rhythm of the three arched which illoggiato is overlapped advanced architravato, classified point of view of wide a look on the extended one of lake Como.

On the skillful side of the palace Gallio 1500 for the rare essences were a cited garden since.
That one puts into effect them, wide rearrangement, it is stretched today towards mount.