The Historical Wing, the New Wing and the Old Chapel

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Oral sources inform us that the last of the Historical Halls, with its corner window overlooking the park, was Countess Sofia’s library. Her painting studio on the ground floor similarly had large windows overlooking the park and internal courtyard. It would seem that the Countess, with her artistic sensibility, chose to paint and study in the brighter areas of the castle, where there was more light and more appealing views of the gardens and exteriors.

The decorative scheme on the vaulted ceiling is from the nineteenth century and so post-dates the previous rooms. The pictorial technique and materials used are contemporary with the decorative elements of the chapel. The wainscoting and window frames instead date to the eighteenth century. Here, like in the adjacent rooms, the walls were originally lined with hand-painted wallpaper.

Today they have been deliberately left bare and show the grooves cut in the 1970s and 1990s for electrical wiring, in what was a conscious decision to “present” the signs of negligent disregard shown to this place, in contrast with the timeless, poetic dimension evoked by the room.