Marcacci and Pedrazzini Castles

In Brione Verzasca there is a building known as the Marcacci castle, built by Giovanni Antonio Marcacci at the beginning of the 18th century. Actually, it was never a castle, but rather the home for a nobility's member, which was capable of providing temporary defence measures. It is a rather unusual building. It rises, an isolated and austere building, at the edge of the village, with a tower on each corner, surrounded by a high wall with towers of its own; these are ornamental elements rather than defence elements. The external walls show traces in the stucco of carved cornices around the windows and two sundials.

Tenero, too, has its own "castle", the Pedrazzini Castle. Actually, it is a 19th century bourgeois villa with its own estate, which once belonged to the Trevani Marcacci family and then passed to the Pedrazzini family. It is close to Piazza Canevascini.

The castles are not open to the public.