{"id":986,"date":"2018-08-03T12:43:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T10:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/grazzanovisconti\/the-castle\/"},"modified":"2022-10-15T17:54:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T15:54:13","slug":"the-castle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grazzanovisconti.com\/en\/the-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CASTLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:60px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h3>In the centuries, Grazzano Visconti Castle has been a fortress, a stronghold and a private house. A home where many different people have lived, some of them even very famous. Our Guided Tour will show you through the traces that these people have left behind. It will tell you their stories; you be able to see through their eyes, the rooms where their lives, actions and dreams have taken place.<\/h3>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_6 1_6 fusion-one-sixth fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:16.666666666667%;width:calc(16.666666666667% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.16666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-content-centered\"><div class=\"fusion-column-content\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-content-centered\"><div class=\"fusion-column-content\"><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#000000;border-top-width:1px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_6 1_6 fusion-one-sixth fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:16.666666666667%;width:calc(16.666666666667% - ( ( 4% + 4% ) * 0.16666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-content-centered\"><div class=\"fusion-column-content\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-4 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\">#accordion-986-1 .fusion-panel:hover{ border-color: #e0dede } #accordion-986-1 .fusion-panel { border-color:#e0dede; 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The fortress will return into the Visconti family only in 1870, linking itself definitely to their lives, and in particular to the life of Duke Giuseppe.<\/p>\n<p>Giuseppe Visconti di Modrone (1879 \u2013 1941) was a special man. Today we would define him a visionary. Full of interests, very cultured, he loved music, great supporter of the Teatro alla Scala, talented painter. He also became President of Inter football club from 1914 to 1919; he was head of Carlo Erba pharmaceutical company; creator of perfumes and of many successful brands and an active entrepreneur in the textile industry. He was also a very generous philanthrope, personally committed in the fight against malaria, a disease that at the beginning of the 1900 was still very common in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>However, Grazzano Visconti turned out to be his greatest achievement. When Giuseppe inherited the castle, many parts of its were abandoned and run down. Despite the state, he was fascinated by the place and decided that it would become the heart of a project that he already had in mind. Create a place where he could live the life of a Medieval town, far away from the city and the factories, farming and dedicating himself to the noble art of craftsmanship.<\/p>\n<p>He teamed with Architect Campanini, renovating and transforming the Castle. He reinforced and raised the Castle; he designed the crenellations and changed the North-East tower from a cylinder into a quadrangular shape. He designed the rooms, selected the furniture, that perfectly resembled the Duke\u2019s taste.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the life of the Visconti family has been closely connected to Grazzano Visconti, which will influence the story of all the following generations, starting from the Duke\u2019s children Anna, Guido and Luchino; the great neorealistic movie director, who directed masterpieces like \u201cRocco e i suoi Fratelli\u201d, \u201cBellissima\u201d, \u201cSenso\u201d and \u201cIl Gattopardo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Castle has also another inhabitant, a ghost named Aloisa, wife of the mercenary captain, who died of heartbreak after her husband had left her. She herself, tells her story to Duke Giuseppe \u2013 who among other things was also a medium \u2013 guiding his hand making him draw her portrait that will be the reference for the statues that still today can be seen in the castle. After such an unlucky love story in life, today Aloisa\u2019s spirit protects all lovers whose feelings are not reciprocated.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":932,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-986","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>THE CASTLE - Castello di Grazzano<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A guided tour of the castle to discover the stories of the people who lived it and see the rooms where they lived, acted and dreamed\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grazzanovisconti.com\/en\/the-castle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"THE CASTLE - 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