Palazzo Polli Stoppani was built around 1500 to a design by Pietro Isabello, and renovated in 1700. It was then purchased by Vittorio Polli in 1960 as a family residence.
In 1962, based on a project by the architect Sandro Angelini, it underwent a recovery which enhanced its unique characteristics, such as being placed directly on the rock of the Upper Town, making it habitable at the same time in the state in which it remained until the disappearance of the owners.
In 2009 Mrs. Anna Maria Stoppani established that the building should be used as the headquarters of the Polli Stoppani Foundation, a charity that deals with personal support (with particular attention to the elderly, women, children and families in difficulty) as well as promotion of culture, both in terms of recovering the local historical-artistic heritage and raising awareness of social issues, as well as supporting the Museum of the Valley, Polli Stoppani ONLUS Foundation of Zogno, the first charitable commitment started by the founders in 1979.
In 2016, the Foundation ordered the start of the recovery works on the property, a recovery that required over a year and a half to bring the structure back in a position to be able to fulfil the Foundation's purposes.
The front of Palazzo Polli Stoppani has four floors above ground; on the ground floor, under a large stone archivolt, there is a fountain which mirrors the entrance hall to the left. From this, an unusual Z-shaped staircase leads to the hanging courtyard.
The visitor comes through the door and is greeted by a copper sun made, based on a design by Sandro Angelini, with the gold leaf technique and hung on what was once a medieval fountain. In the courtyard on the first floor there is a fountain with the sign «An excellent thing is water», surrounded on three sides by ten columns of pietra serena.
Each floor covers 400 square metres. The first floor, which opens onto halls with ceilings covered with eighteenth-century frescoes, is dedicated to temporary exhibitions, while the second floor houses a valuable private collection donated by the founders themselves with works from 1300 to 1800 and various wooden sculptures from the sixteenth century.
The third floor is the one where the owners of the house lived. There is a hall dominated by a large fireplace, the long table where the founders dined with their relatives and friends and some niches in the walls that seem made especially to house works of art. Today it houses the institutional and operational premises of the Foundation.
Palazzo Polli Stoppani was built around 1500 to a design by Pietro Isabello, and renovated in 1700. It was then purchased by Vittorio Polli in 1960 as a family residence.
In 1962, based on a project by the architect Sandro Angelini, it underwent a recovery which enhanced its unique characteristics, such as being placed directly on the rock of the Upper Town, making it habitable at the same time in the state in which it remained until the disappearance of the owners.
In 2009 Mrs. Anna Maria Stoppani established that the building should be used as the headquarters of the Polli Stoppani Foundation, a charity that deals with personal support (with particular attention to the elderly, women, children and families in difficulty) as well as promotion of culture, both in terms of recovering the local historical-artistic heritage and raising awareness of social issues, as well as supporting the Museum of the Valley, Polli Stoppani ONLUS Foundation of Zogno, the first charitable commitment started by the founders in 1979.
In 2016, the Foundation ordered the start of the recovery works on the property, a recovery that required over a year and a half to bring the structure back in a position to be able to fulfil the Foundation's purposes.
The front of Palazzo Polli Stoppani has four floors above ground; on the ground floor, under a large stone archivolt, there is a fountain which mirrors the entrance hall to the left. From this, an unusual Z-shaped staircase leads to the hanging courtyard.
The visitor comes through the door and is greeted by a copper sun made, based on a design by Sandro Angelini, with the gold leaf technique and hung on what was once a medieval fountain. In the courtyard on the first floor there is a fountain with the sign «An excellent thing is water», surrounded on three sides by ten columns of pietra serena.
Each floor covers 400 square metres. The first floor, which opens onto halls with ceilings covered with eighteenth-century frescoes, is dedicated to temporary exhibitions, while the second floor houses a valuable private collection donated by the founders themselves with works from 1300 to 1800 and various wooden sculptures from the sixteenth century.
The third floor is the one where the owners of the house lived. There is a hall dominated by a large fireplace, the long table where the founders dined with their relatives and friends and some niches in the walls that seem made especially to house works of art. Today it houses the institutional and operational premises of the Foundation.
