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Visconti Castle

Piazza Vittorio Veneto, 6, Galliate, Piedmont

Closed now: open at 10:00

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The itinerary to discover the artistic and architectural beauties of Galliate starts from its castle, one of the most important monuments in the Novara area for its architectural beauty and the grandeur and unity of its layout. There are numerous historical events linked to the castle and the legendary and fantastic narratives it has evoked, creating around itself an aura of charm and mystery. The castle was built by the will of Galeazzo Maria Sforza from 1476 on the foundations of a previous Visconti fortress and was designed by the military architects Ambrogio Ferrari and Danesio Mainerio. After the duke's death, the construction works stopped and were only resumed in 1496 by Ludovico il Moro, who once again used Ferrari to turn the fortress into a comfortable residence for the ducal hunts.

The Castello Visconteo in Galliate is for us today everything it has been and has significantly impressed upon us: from the ingenious fortified structure of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, with its differentiated angular towers in pairs, the stairs wrapped around the lower sides of their walls, the loopholes, the gates, the main axis oriented between them, the solid Flemish curtains (an exemplary expression of a technique that within a few decades the artillery of Charles VIII would have made obsolete); to the hall of Ludovico il Moro.

	opens - closes	last entry
monday	Closed now
tuesday	Closed now
wednesday	Closed now
thursday	10:00 - 18:00
friday	10:00 - 18:00
saturday	10:00 - 18:00
sunday	10:00 - 18:00

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