In the 19th century, it underwent profound transformations providing it the current neo-Gothic Tudor aspect.

Giovanni Visconti di Oleggio († 1366), lord of Bologna and Fermo, was one of them.

Passed to the Visconti d'Aragona, another collateral branch of the Visconti of Milan, and subsequently to the Dal Pozzo family, the castle underwent transformation in the 19th century under guidance of Marquess Claudio Dal Pozzo.

Inspired by a reinterpretation of the 16th-century Gothic Tudor, he created a vast villa with a consistent style both outside and inside.

It is surrounded by a park and on the border of a meadow sloping down toward the Lake Maggiore, leaving the view open to it.