5 room Apartment for sale in Via Carlo Bescapè, 4, Novara, Piedmont

Arelli Real Estate offers in “Casa Biscaldi” sec. XVI -luxury Real Estate Exclusive property in the lively heart of the historic center of Novara, where silence reigns and vehicular traffic is almost completely imperceptible; and it is right here, on the main floor of an elegant and historic residential building, we offer an exclusive apartment of 230 m2, well-kept and made with quality materials, perfectly renovated. The building, a stone's throw from the Cupola Di San Gaudenzio, overlooks a beautiful and large planted garden as does the accommodation. The ancient and majestic entrance door with wrought iron gate gives the residence an elegance and importance it deserves. The materials range from parquet laid in a herringbone pattern to Carrara marble up to splendid frescoed ceilings. The property includes a double garage and two cellars, one of which is temperature controlled. HISTORICAL NOTES BISCALDI HOUSE 16th CENTURY Via Bescapè Novara The building located in Via Carlo Bescapè 2 bis,4,6 in Novara was built at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century. At the time of the election of Monsignor Carlo Bescapè (1550/1615) as Bishop of Novara, whose entry took place on 30 May 1593, there already existed an old church of San Marco, erected as a parish in 1,491 and in 1,591 united with that of San Marco . Immediately at the beginning of his bishopric, Bescapè called the Barnabites to Novara, the order from which he came and of which he had been General, to whom he handed over the old church of San Marco with the task of building a new one. The definitive establishment of the Order took place in 1599 and it is presumable that on that date the construction of the convent, adjacent to and communicating with the new church, had already begun on the area between it, the house later called Baldi, now the Bank of Italy, and the Contrada del Coro di San Gaudenzio, now Via Bescapè. The author of the drawings of the church and most probably also of the convent was the Barnabite P. Ferrari. The religious order remained active and owner of the building complex until 1798 when French republican troops occupied the city of Novara for the first time. They confiscated the church of San Marco from the Barnabites and used it as a venue for bi-weekly political meetings and later as a public library. The convent was instead maintained and religious services were held privately in the internal oratory. In this regard, it is conceivable that this oratory was located where the entrance hall of No. 6 currently is, both due to its structure and because the relative staircase is a 19th century work. In fact, at that time the convent had no driveway entrance in the current Via Bescapè and the main pedestrian one was at N.4, where the stairs are equipped with period ornaments. In 1810 the Napoleonic government suppressed the religious orders and the convent was confiscated from the Barnabites and passed to the state property of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. As a result, the State Property Office sold the building to Mr. Giovanni Camillo Gola who passed from ownership to ownership until reaching the lawyer Luigi Biscaldi, who held it until his death in 1943, when by testamentary succession it passed to his sons Dr. Carlo and Dr. Pier Giuseppe Biscaldi. When the latter died in 1945, by legitimate succession it passed into ownership not only to the aforementioned brother but also to his sister Maria Rosa Biscaldi. Finally, in 1967 the ownership was transferred to Investimenti Novara Ticino Sas which in 1989 merged by incorporation into Conservatorio SRL with headquarters in Via Carlo Bescapè in Novara.

Additional Property Information:
• Rooms: 5
• Bedrooms: 3
• Bathrooms: 3
• Size: 230 m²
• Address: Via Carlo Bescapè, 4
• Elevator: Yes
• Energy Rating: C
• Floor: 1
• Floor Count: 1
• Garden: Common
• Kitchens: 1
• Reference: 101523503
• Status: Excellent
• Car parking: Yes