Sasso Mobile

The history of this site begins in the early 1800s, when the official maps of the area documented it with the registered name of \"Casino di Ponte Samoggia\". During the Napoleonic Age, the area in which it is situated was became part of the Duchy of Galliera, created by Antonio Aldini, government minister for Napoleon, who then assigned it to Eugéne de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy and the son of Josephine . When Napoleon fell, the duchy was first puchsed by the Marquis De Ferrari di Genova and subsequently sold to the French princes of Orléans, dukes of Montpensier. The structure known as the \"casino\" was built, most likely intended as a country home or hunting lodge for the princes, whose heraldic crest can still be seen on a number of nearby buildings. The structure was definitively transformed at the beginning of the 1900s, when the property was purchased by the Lazzari family, who did not only alter the building's appearance, but its function as well, making it the administrative center for the farming business it carried out in the surrounding plantations, mainly focused on wheat cultivation. This lovely villa follows a horizontal layout, on three floors. The grand, stairway in the front of the building, placed centrally, leads to the piano nobile and to a rooftop tower, where a magnificent, perfectly preseved wheat storage room is found, in which the scent of its original contents seems to permeate the air. The villa is still property of the Lazzari family.