Palazzo Eccheli Baisi

Palazzo Eccheli Baisi was built at the end of the 16th century, by merging some pre-existing medieval buildings.

Nowadays, Palazzo Eccheli Baisi is home to the “Monte Baldo Natural Park”, the “Museo del fossile” (fossil museum), and the botanical garden of Brentonico. It hosts both temporary and permanent exhibitions.

On the 16th century façade, a fresco, representing the Virgin Mary holding an infant Jesus Christ and Saint Sebastian is still visible, ruined, however.

Green is the main colour of the palace: the Eccheli family from Pilcante, who ordered the construction of the latter, were also its first inhabitants. They used to manage the works at the “Terre Verdi” (green lands) mines of Dosso and Aviana (Loc.Pianeti), granted to them from the venetians. The green powder produced from the mines, was used in the past as dye for fabrics and as pigmentation for oil paint.

On the ground floor there is a double-height living room with a balcony, frescoed ceiling, and a stairway access to the garden: from here one can enjoy the marvellous view of the Brentonico Plateau. Many other frescoed rooms are to be admired on the first floor, such as the room of green columns, the room of abduction (with frescoes of the abduction of the Sabine women and the kidnapping of Helen of Troy) and the room of arts (music, architecture, geography, and painting). The second floor is decorated with further frescoes: mythological scenes such as Leda and Zeus or landscapes from Brentonico.

In 1840, the mansion was sold to the Baisi family, from where the mansion inherited its second name (Eccheli-Baisi). Charcuterie producers, merchants, pasture lands and farmlands owners, the Baisi family built a second door in the palace’s façade, and started their business.

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