Palazzo Bellisomi Vistarino

Jurists, administrators, ecclesiastics emerged, among these the most famous was Carlo (1736-1808), who went through a diplomatic career, first becoming nuncio to Poland and then to Lisbon, in 1783 he was created cardinal, and in 1795 bishop of Cesena.

[1] Around 1720 the aristocratic family decided to remodel their urban palace according to the dictates of the new artistic fashions, the works, however, lasted for a long time, until, from 1745, Gaetano Annibale Bellisomi, thanks to the huge accumulated patrimony, gave new impetus to the construction site.

[2] The palace was designed by Francesco Croce,[3] one of the greatest Milanese architects of the time, while the Cremonese painter Giovanni Angelo Borroni was called on for the frescoes.

With the death of Gaetano Annibale Bellisomi, in 1747, the renovation of the building was carried out by his wife, Marie Anne Thérèse de la Corcelle Percy, and the works were completed in 1753.

The elegant building was originally richly furnished, we know in fact that Gaetano Annibale brought furniture from France and, through the Marquis Antoniotto Botta Adorno (high officer of the Habsburg monarchy and a plenipotentiary of the Austrian Netherlands), Flemish tapestries from Brussels.