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Bormio - PALACES
Palazzo de SimoniThe De Simoni building was built during the XVII century and used to be a noble building. Today it is the seat of the Museum, of the Civic Library and of the Town hall of Bormio. It rises on the foundations of a medieval building that was completely re-built during the XVII century, according to the typology of the patrician buildings that can be found in Bormio. The building, which is completely built in stone, is adjacent to an enchanting garden that was once an orchard. A passage built above Buon Consiglio Street allows the direct connection between the building and the family chapel, devoted to the Blessed Virgo of Buon Consiglio. The imposing tower that lies beside the De Simoni building was one of the most prestigious among the 32 towers of Bormio during medieval times. The tower used to be the seat of a “guaita”, which was a look-out point, provided with one of the town crossbows. The inside of the building immediately conveys the charm and a feeling of History with a capital “H”. It is rich of rooms, comprising of the "stue", or typical rooms completely covered with wood which contained the “pigne”. These were stone-stoves that were once used for heating during the winter period.
Residences of the aristocracy with splendid portals The Bardea-De Simoni House (Via Ignazio Bardea 13), an Eighteenth Century mansion belonging to the historian Ignazio Bardea (1736-1815) who left it to the De Simoni family as a legacy. Their stone coat of arms on the entry door is worthy of note.
- the Cantoni-Confortola House (Via Pedranzini 19), once the ancient northwest customs house, the checkpoint for those coming from the Val Fraele and the Braulio Pass. A massive old door leads to a cross-vaulted arcade supported by an original pillar (1509)
- the Castellazzi-Cola House (Via S. Francesco 2), XIV C, known as “The Conventino” with a sharply curved door above which a fragment of fresco depicting the Annunciation and attributed to Giovannino da Sondalo is still preserved.
- the Giacomelli-Compagnoni House (Piazza Buon Consiglio 17 a). Above the doorway the oldest noble coat of arms of the County of Bormio, of unknown lineage (XIV sec.) can be seen.
- the Lamprecht Pinardi House- formerly Dea (Via della Vittoria 23). A Baroque doorway, but made in the Eighteenth Century with a lozenge-shaped motif and wooden doors and wrought iron doorknockers in the shape of strange and fantastic creatures.
- the Alberti House – now Canclini (Via Alberti, corner of Ripa Belvedere). A sharply curved stone doorway, with a lithic shield above with a five-petalled flower (the noble coat of arms of the De Murchi family). An old doorway in white marble from Uzza on the west façade has traces of fresco decoration.
- the Dossi-Canclini House (Ripa Guardia Nazionale 1), once the southeast customs house with a Sixteenth Century doorway with polychrome ashlars.
- the Omobono Buzzi House (Vicolo Bruni 4). The house probably dates from the XIV C. From 1825 to 1915 it was used as a coaching house. The current doorway was, perhaps, refurbished on a previous opening curved at the top.
- Baroque doorway in green stone from Campello at 16 Via Roma
- the De Gasperi House now Peloni (Via Roma 80). An entry doorway in Baroque style (XVII C.) it was moved here from the now demolished Nicolina House.
- Clementi-Pedranzini House (Via Roma 53). A typical local building technique using carefully interlocked wooden panels arranged horizontally can be seen in the doorways.
- the Berbenni-Galli House (Via Roma 39). A patrician Bormio house, handed down with its original features.
- the old doorway (1609) of the old “Misericordia Hospital” (founded in 1604) at Via Roma 33. - the Pradella House (Via De Simoni 28), with an arched doorway (XIV sec.) with an abraded coat of arms of the Foliani family.
- the Foliani-Lumina House (Via De Simoni 36). An arched doorway dating from the Sixteenth Century, with two dolphins supporting a tondo in the centre on which is depicted the family coat of arms. Castor and Pollux are depicted at the side, one of the rare examples of a pagan fresco to be seen in the historic centre.
The beautiful houses of Bormio The buildings of the Combo district, where the typical ancient rural features are still well preserved, are arranged around the small Church of the Holy Crucifixion. Some face onto the left bank of the Frodolfo stream. Immediately after the old Combo Bridge, on the left there is the Imeldi House, now Dei Cas. The house has a medieval structure with an arched doorway and small window shaped by three stone blocks, in the middle of which the Guelph lily is crudely sculpted. As it has always guarded the bridge, the building looks like a small fortress with arrow slits and the remains of a tower. From here you enter the district that still preserves some lovely examples of typical Bormio rural houses, two churches, two fountains of which one has a washhouse-drinking trough. The buildings along the Frodolfo used energy produced by water; there are the signs of a watermill, a sawmill and a forge. The houses are built in the following way: the stables are on the ground floor, at the rear, immediately under the roof, the hayloft. Inside the room with the wood-burning stove, the kitchen and the bedrooms. There is, finally, no lack of decorative details: elegant stone portals, sometimes carved, large wooden entrance doors, wrought iron railings at the windows, decorative frescoed friezes and votive frescoes on some houses dating back to the XV Century.
The Quadrilatero degli Alberti The so-called “Alberti District” or “Quadrilateral” has a place of primary importance among the most typical groups of buildings in the entire town. It is a veritable fortified district whose origin dates from the XII—XIII centuries, defended by turrets and battlemented walls. All that remains today, saved from destructions and fires (the most recent recorded are those of the years 1855, 1882 and 1903), can only lead one to imagine the pomp and importance that these buildings enjoyed. The actual “Quadrilateral” is contained within Via Alberti, Via al Castello and Ripa Valenti, even though the complex of houses and other buildings owned by the aristocratic Alberti family extended still further along the road of the same name going west up to the crossing with the Ripa Belvedere. Among these it is important to remember the former private chapel, now used as a residential house, located behind the Torre delle Ore, now known as the Torre Civica. It itself was part of the defensive system before being given to the Municipality by the Alberti family, following the destruction of the Castle of St. Pietro, as were the row of terrace houses higher up the road with gardens and vegetable gardens. The battlemented towers are important evidence of ancient use, especially the north-east one, which still has typical cross-shaped arrow slits for shooting with the crossbow, and a series of small openings for an ancient dovecote. The coats of arms of the Alberti family and families related to them are also of great historical and artistic importance, they are frescoed in the reception room appropriately known as the “Coat of Arms” or “Arms” Room, where there is also a fine Baroque fireplace. Another detail worth mentioning is the two fragments of fresco on the west façade in which an angel and a small Virgin can be identified.
The Torre delle OreThe upper part of Piazza Cavour is bordered by the tall and massive “Torre delle Ore”, also called the Torre Civica. In the XIV Century it became part of the District or the “Alberti Quadrilateral”, the fortified district of the powerful Alberti family from Bormio of which today some buildings still remain. After the destruction of St. Pietro castle, in 1376, the work of the Visconti militia commanded by Giovanni Cane, the Alberti family gave the tower to the community. The “Bajona”, the large bell that is one of the symbols of the community of Bormio hangs in the tower. It is rung when public meetings are convoked in the nearby Kuerc, at the time of festivals or in warning of danger. The bell has been recast twice, in 1488 by the German ironsmith Mastro Tommaso (it then weighted 29 quintals) and after 1855 following the fire that devastated a large part of the town including the tower (in result of this the weight was reduced to 24 quintals). Currently the ringing of the “Bajona” signals meetings of the Municipal Council and important occasions as in the times of the County. The tower, similar to others, has a wider base compared to the rest of the structure in order to increase the stability of the entire building. A little above the middle section is the large face of the clock finely decorated by Menico Nesini and above it the hand of the sundial that showed the time before the clock was placed there. The top floor, where the “Bajona” is, is a raised area dating from 1494 and the work of Antonio da Lenno. The bell chamber is lit by two large arched openings supported in the centre by a slender stone column, a Ghibelline buttress thrust up from the top.
