The Castelmur Palace in Coltura near Stampa belongs to the valley community. It was purchased by the last descendants of the Castelmur family in 1961 and converted into a museum. It is open to the public during the summer months.

The building is a hermaphrodite, because Giovanni Castelmur (1800-1871) expanded the patrician house of the Redolfi family, built in 1723, with a tower-fortified extension in the Lombard-Venetian style, the construction of which was completed in 1854. The successful combination of old and new and the lavish redecoration of the entire complex were the work of various Milanese specialists: engineer and architect Giovanni Crassi-Marliani, master mason Giovanni Pedrazzini, and painter Gaspare Tirinanzi. Most of the other excellent craftsmen also came from nearby Lombardy.

The interior design of the castle is in line with that of the exterior, but the decor of the interior rooms is much more splendid. The living rooms of the former Redolfi House, which are located in the block building, have lacquered panels and wallpaper, except for one room. In the new extension, you can see the dining room, the living room, the rooms wallpapered in red and green, and the four small tower rooms. The walls and ceilings of the most representative rooms are decorated with murals; the trompe l'oeil paintings are the most striking.

From June 6, Miriam Cahn will present her exhibition FREMD das fremde (FREMD the Foreigner) in the historic Castelmur Palace. The exhibition is connected to a series of high-profile discussions.


Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.