>>> 🐧NEW ONE WBA 2025 🐧<<< 1DA/CT040 – Castle of Peschiera Borromeo COTA (by 1DA001 Gaetano & 1DA006 Sergio )/ 3 PTS (H)/3 PTS (A) / DATE: 03 april 2026 start @ 10.00 UTC / Freq. stay tuned on WhatsApp WBA news / PROVINCE 215 (Area metropolitana di Milano)/ Municipality G488 (Peschiera Borromeo).
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Borromeo Castle in Peschiera is the oldest Lombard possession of the Borromeo family, originally from San Miniato in Tuscany. The Borromeo family, who practiced the art of merchants and bankers, moved to Lombardy and developed their commercial and financial activities abroad, so much so that in 1435 the Banco Filippo Borromeo & Compagni established a branch in London to increase trade with that place.In 1432, Vitaliano Borromeo obtained from Duke Filippo Maria Visconti, who held him in high esteem, the right to fortify Peschiera which, born as a rural building (farmhouse), thus took on the appearance of a castle.San Carlo Borromeo (1538 – 1584) was the owner of Peschiera from 1562 to 1567, the year in which he renounced it in favor of his uncle Giulio Cesare. In the last twenty years of the 16th century, the Peschiera castle was completely restored by Renato, son of Julius Caesar and brother of that Federico who, having become cardinal, is remembered by Manzoni in “The Betrothed”. It was Renato who gave the building its current residential character to the detriment of any previous military aspect. The Borromeo castle is one of the few still surrounded by a moat filled with water as it was dug more than five centuries ago.
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