Description
Arelli Real Estate offers in "Casa Biscaldi" 16th century - luxury real estate
Exclusive property in the heart of the historic center of Novara, where silence reigns and the passage of vehicles is almost completely imperceptible; and it is right here, on the main floor of an elegant and historic residential building, we offer an exclusive 230 sq m apartment, meticulously maintained and built with quality materials, perfectly renovated.
The building, a stone's throw from the Dome of San Gaudenzio, overlooks a beautiful and large garden planted as well as the apartment. The ancient and majestic entrance door with wrought iron gate gives the residence an elegance and importance it deserves.
The materials ranging from herringbone parquet to Carrara marble to arrive at splendid frescoed ceilings.
The property includes a double garage and two cellars, one of which is temperature-controlled.
HISTORICAL NOTES
BISCALDI HOUSE 16TH CENTURY
Via Bescapè Novara
The building located in Via Carlo Bescapè 2 bis, 4, 6 in Novara was built at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century.
At the time of the election as Bishop of Novara of Monsignor Carlo Bescapè (1550/1615) whose entry took place on 30 May 1593, there already existed an old church of San Marco, erected as a Parish in 1491 and in 1591 united with that of San Marco. Immediately at the beginning of his episcopate, Bescapè called the Barnabites, the order from which he came and of which he had been General, to Novara. He ceded to them the old church of San Marco with the task of building a new one. The Order's definitive establishment took place in 1599, and it is likely that by that date construction had already begun on the convent, adjacent to and communicating with the new church, on the area between it, the house later called Baldi, now the Bank of Italy, and the Contrada del Coro di San Gaudenzio, now Via Bescapè. The author of the designs for the church and most likely also for the convent was the Barnabite P. Ferrari. The religious order remained active and owned the building complex until 1798, when French Republican troops occupied the city of Novara for the first time. They confiscated the church of San Marco from the Barnabites and used it as a venue for biweekly political meetings and later as a public library. The convent, however, was maintained, and religious services were held privately in the internal oratory. In this regard, it is conceivable that this oratory was located where the entrance hall of No. 6 currently stands, both due to its structure and because the relative staircase is a 19th-century work. At that time, in fact, the convent had no driveway entrance in the current Via Bescapè and the main pedestrian entrance was at No. 4, where the staircase is equipped with period ornaments.
In 1810 the Napoleonic government suppressed the religious orders and the convent was confiscated from the Barnabites and passed to the State Property of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.
As a consequence, the State Property sold the building to Mr. Giovanni Camillo Gola who passed from owner to owner until reaching the lawyer Luigi Biscaldi, who kept it until his death in 1943, when by testamentary succession it passed to his sons Dr. Carlo and Dr. Pier Giuseppe Biscaldi. When the latter died in 1945, by legitimate succession it passed into the ownership, in addition to the aforementioned brother, also to his sister Maria Rosa Biscaldi.
Finally, in 1967 the property was transferred to Investimenti Novara Ticino Sas which in In 1989 it was merged by incorporation into Conservatorio SRL, which had its headquarters in Via Carlo Bescapè in Novara.--41a2062283dd6b095f740e1b687ee45d!
