The castle of Torrechiara is the most famous among the fortresses and fortresses that were part of the feud of Pier Maria Rossi, Count of San Secondo and great leader, who set about their renewal in the 15th century. Here, at the end of her warlike exploits, she retired to live together with Bianca Pellegrini da Como, who had left her husband, Melchiorre d’Arluno, for her love. Pier Maria Rossi wanted to leave in the building the testimony of their sentimental bond, entrusting in 1452, probably to the painter Benedetto Bembo, the fresco decoration of the ‘Camera d’Oro’, where the two lovers are represented by the strings of Blindfolded Love in the lunettes, while in the sails only Bianca appears, dressed as a pilgrim, along an itinerary that touches all the castles of Pier Maria. Torrechiara, with a rectangular plan, with three walls and towers at the corners, patrol paths, machicolations and a vast porticoed courtyard, was subject to various extensions and restorations: in the seventeenth century, on the valley side, large panoramic loggias were opened. The hall, on the second floor of the North/East body, is decorated with grotesques by Cesare Baglione.
