Castle & palace
Palazzo Belgioioso
Palazzo Belgioioso—also spelled Belgiojoso—was built for Prince Alberico XII di Belgioioso d’Este, a collector whose Milan home drew figures such as Giuseppe Parini and Ugo Foscolo. Giuseppe Piermarini designed the mansion in 1772, then completed it in 1781 in an Italian Neoclassical style, on the site of the house where the prince was born. Piermarini’s design borrowed its grand ambition from Luigi Vanvitelli’s Palace of Caserta, while the facade became especially elaborate: a slightly projecting central section carried four giant columns, an entablature, and a tympanum, with rusticated “bugnato” stonework on the ground floor. …
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