Palace Appiani Spazzini

The large building is located outside the historic center in an elevated position on a moraine hill in the locality of Cortellazzo

Palace Appiani Spazzini (XVI century): The structure is of an old building with a square plan, almost of a castle; to the north-east remains a tower with a small balcony that can still indicate what was the shape of the past.

Today everything has been redone with a disastrous Gothic fake of the last century. If it were not for the square plan of the whole, for certain windows on the ground floor that open on the perimeter walls and finally for that corner tower upstream morning, also sophisticated in the last century up to the crown of small useless merlons, it would not seem that this was the seat, for four centuries, of a noble family. As a testimony to the ancient dwelling, there is a beautiful marble fireplace with two caryatids of a female figure, bearing two jonic capitals and a well-made lintel. It is however an interesting dwelling that rises above a moraine hill overlooking the plain. The first nucleus was built by Lanterio Appiani or his son Gio. Battista in the XV century and since then this house has always remained in the three branches descended from Lanterio, Gio. Battista and Timoteo. It was, as seen, a rather thin on land without irrigation (then the deep pits could not be built with horrible high reservoirs) and lean even when, after about eighty years, the two branches were extinct and remained masters of the “mont dei Pià”, as then called, the five sons of Scipione and the four of Lanterus. Carlo (born. 1685) by Gio. Battista q. Scipione was the only one who continued the family with the nob. Teresa Zola and their sons was Gio. Battista (n.1724) who, marrying the nob. Marianna Maffei q. Nicola had several sons but all without succession and so this branch went out. The other branch that of Lanterus, had this line of successions: Pompeo (born. 1647) he married the nob. Leonora Luzzago and father of Gio. Battista (born.1689), husband of the nob. Laura Coriani. Camillo was born of these (born 1734) husband of Angela Mompiani and father of eight children, even those who remained without succession. This house, like that of the city, was sold by the heirs. In 1851 the nob. Luigi Della Vita left the house to his daughter Luisa, bride of the Hon. Romanelli who sold it to the brothers Piero and Giovanni Beccaguti da Breno (restoration authors). Piero’s daughter married Colonel Pedrazzi. The heirs of these sold to Mr. Egidio Spazzini, father of the current owners Cesare and Giulio. In the beautiful farmhouse above a door under the portico a coat of arms not bresciano: split in the first two doves faced and in the second a harpy.

Palace Appiani Spazzini

Palace Appiani Spazzini – Fonti Fausto Lechi, “Dimore Bresciane, in cinque secoli di storia”