The Oltrepò area was once called Old Piedmont and was part of the domains of the Savoy Duchy.

Land of Barbera and Pinot Noir, today also of Nebbiolo, thanks to the vision of Gian Marco and Letizia Moratti, a dynamic suspended between tradition and innovation.

Emilia Ajroldi di Robbiate, Donna Mimina, grandmother of Letizia Moratti, during her summer holidays and in autumn for the grape harvest, hosted politicians, thinkers and intellectuals such as Benedetto Croce, Piovene and Bacchelli, Eugenio Montale and Luigi Einaudi.

Emilia’s daughters, Bianca and Bice Brichetto – painter and host of a famous Milanese cultural salon – loved the castle very much, living there often and bringing it back to life after the Second World War.

No less than five libraries, formed by as many ancestors according to their tastes and interests, constitute the testimony of an imprinting of culture and hospitality that has always accompanied the existence of the manor.