Well, Grazzano Visconti is not an authentic village, but a fake one. The real village of Grazzano Visconti was conceived and started to be built at the beginning of the 20th century on the intuition of Duke Giuseppe Visconti, who had a strong scenographic taste and a great attention to detail and entrusted the architect Alfredo Campanini who designed the historical centre in a neo-medieval style. Among its streets the houses and the historical buildings are often beautifully displayed with lace on the upper floors and arches and porticoes on the ground floor. In practically all the streets of the old town there is no paving, but the classic gaia is used, which can be a bit annoying on rainy days. The castle, on the other hand, dates back to the end of the 15th century and is owned by the Visconti family, like the rest of the village of Grazzano Visconti. The plan of the castle is square and has towers at each corner, two of which are square and the others cylindrical. On three sides of the castle there are buildings, while the fourth side, which was accessible through a drawbridge of which few remains today, is simply a high wall.
In the castle there are numerous walkways that wind behind the Ghibelline battlements half-hidden by the tall trees of the park that houses the castle of Grazzano Visconti.
Its fairy-tale and pretty appearance makes it one of the must-see attractions in the province of Piacenza and it is perfect in the company of children.
