Palazzo Castelmur
Historically furnished palazzo in the Bergell with a Lombard-Venetian tower extension of 1854, murals and an exhibition on the Grisons confectioners.
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About the museum
The Palazzo Castelmur stands in Coltura near Stampa in the Bergell and belongs to the valley municipality. Its core is a patrician house built in 1723 for the Redolfi family. Giovanni Castelmur (1800–1871), who came from the Bergell and became a baron in France, had it extended with a tower-flanked annex in the Lombard-Venetian style; the building work was completed in 1854. Milanese specialists and craftsmen worked on the lavish new furnishings, including the architect Giovanni Crassi-Marliani and the painter Gaspare Tirinanzi.
Inside, the grand bourgeois living world of the couple Giovanni and Anna de Castelmur can be seen. The rooms of the old log house have panelling and wallpaper; in the new building, visitors see the dining room, salon, bedrooms papered in red and green, and four small tower rooms whose walls and ceilings are decorated with murals and trompe-l'œil painting. The childless couple supported the school, church and hospital in the valley and gave the municipality, among other things, the Nossa Dona fortress.
The last descendants of the family sold the building complex with its garden and outbuildings in 1961 to the Bergell district, which converted the palazzo into a museum. Today it is open in summer and houses, besides the permanent exhibition on the Grisons confectioners, who emigrated as pastry cooks throughout Europe, the historical archive of the Bergell of the Società Storica Bregaglia.
Highlights
- Historically furnished living rooms of Baron Giovanni de Castelmur
- Tower-flanked annex of 1854 in the Lombard-Venetian style
- Murals and trompe-l'œil in the reception rooms
- Permanent exhibition on the Grisons confectioners
- Historical archive and photo archive of the Bergell
Permanent exhibitions
- Historische Wohnräume des Palazzo Castelmur – Tour through the originally furnished rooms of the old Redolfi house and the tower annex with dining room, salon, bedrooms and murals.
- Ausstellung über die Bündner Zuckerbäcker – Shows the rise and fortunes of the Grisons pastry cooks, café owners and chocolatiers who worked in Venice and, after their expulsion in 1766, emigrated to many European cities.
- Founded
- 1961
- Operated by
- Gemeinde Bregaglia (Bergell)
Admission & discounts
| Adults | CHF 8 |
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| Reduced | CHF 4Students and young people aged 12 to 16 |
| Children & teens | CHF 4The website states "12 / ICOM: gratis" next to "Studenten / 12–16: CHF 4"; the exact age limit for free admission is not clearly given there. |
| Students & apprentices | CHF 4Students and 12- to 16-year-olds. |
Free for ICOM members and younger children (according to the website "12 / ICOM: gratis").
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Getting there & parking
Address: Palazzo Castelmur, 7605 Stampa/Coltura (Bergell).
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | Concerts and other events take place in the palazzo in summer; the historical archive of the Bergell and the photo archive can be consulted on request. |
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