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After going through the first courtyard we reach the richly decorated rooms of the ground floor: in the first room a large fireplace with the family’s motto acts as a counter-altar to the portrait of the Lamarmora family realized around 1828 by Pietro Ayres, in which Alfonso and Alessandro Lamarmora also appear.
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The palazzo of the marquis Ferrero della
Marmora displays a façade from the end of the 1700s, snaking in five modules
for 70m (210ft) following the curve of the boulevard and conserving at its
top the family’s coat of arms.
The
room of the Castles conserves a ceiling frescoed around the
middle of the 1600s with the depictions of the thirty-three castles in
property of the family, among which we note in the center a view of the city
of Biella; in the lower part a succession of coat of arms realized in the
1800s recalls the weddings of the Ferrero La Marmoras from the beginning of
the 1400s until recent times: the diamond-shapes contain coat of arms of the women
from other
families that married Ferreros, while the shields are coat of arms of the men
united with Ferrero women. On the ceiling of the Green salotto there
are frescoes of allegorical composition alternated with floral motifs and
chimerical animals, that culminate in the center in the two coat of arms if the
Ferrero Lamarmora and the Solaro di Moretta which united in 1623, as
recalled by the
date in the center of the decoration.
It
follows the alcove, a bedroom realized in the 1700s, and the room
of the Mottis, whose ceiling is frescoed with animals flanked by mottoes. The
veranda contain an exemplar of a century-old Ficus repens and opens
into a larger garden, from which you enjoy a view over the entire city.
