CASTELLO DI VESPOLATE

Rooms with brick vaults and stone columns or coffered ceilings, large room with floors in ancient terracotta and a vast and well-tended garden rich in plants and flowers are the features of Castello di Vespolate, in the Novara province. The atmosphere is that of a building with a millenary history: there is certain information about it since 1053, when the Countess Adelaide, daughter of the Count of Parma and widow of the Count of Pombia, donated it to Rudolfo da Besate. It was then passed down by the Sforza family to the Farnese and by the Spaniards to the bishop of Novara. Subsequently, with the law of 1866 expropriating church assets, the castle and fortress of Vespolate were passed on to private individuals.