Palazzo Lascaris

The palace, one of the most representative in the city history, was built between 1663 and 1665 for the earl Giovanni Battista Beggiamo by the Lugano entrepreneur Domenico Bernardi, probably on a draw by Amedeo di Castellamonte.

Palazzo Lascaris

Arrived in 1803 to the Lascaris family, during the 19th century it became seat of various institutions. In 1975 it was bought by the Regione Piemonte, now seat of the regional council.

After three centuries of architectural and décor episodes, the palace does not offer anymore an homogeneous face, also because of bombings in the last war that caused the loss of almost all the rooms in the first floor and, in particular, of the central room painted in 1694 by Legnanino.

The restoration that involved all the building during the second half of the 1970s brought to life the frieze in stuccoes and the 17th-century frescoes of two rooms of the first floor, but little remains of the décor interventions directed by the architects Borra an Rocca in 1748.

The overall image that the palace offers now, beyond the hall characterised by a rich 16th-century plastic apparatus, is mainly figment of the interventions wanted in1884 by the Banco di Sconto that, besides realising the stone plinth of the façade and the balustrade of the balcony, it helped the erection of the porticoes and the open galleries of the yard, in neo-baroque shapes.

In 1942 the engineer Rigotti renewed the staircase, and in 1959 the great underground room now used by the regional council was realised.