Palazzo dei Panni was built by Gianbattista d’Arco in the late seventeenth century, as confirmed by the emblem of his family present on the entrance; his desire was to make it a palace with a garden and lemon-house, but, not satisfied with the progress of the work, he stopped caring for it. The building was inherited by Count Emanuele d’Arco, Gianbattista’s nephew, who later left it as a legacy to his servant. Towards the end of the 18th century Giovanni Battista Marosi, a priest from Bolognano, succeeded in taking possession of it and transforming it into a woolen mill (hence the name “dei Panni”) to cope with the high number of unemployed people present at that time in the country; over time it had various uses, now it is home to the civic library and the Segantini atelier. A building that is rigorous in its lines but elegant, embellished by the finishes of the windows and by the important entrance portal which, through a portico, overlooks the inner courtyard; inside they find cross ceilings.
