A history built over five hundred years
The original core of the building dates back to the fourteenth century and was owned by the Bonacolsi family, but it was modernized and modified in the eighteenth century by the Bianchi family until it assumed the appearance we still see today.
In the first half of the nineteenth century the palace was sold to the curia which elected it as the seat of the bishop.
The neoclassical façade features two telamons, large statues flanking the entrance portal and supporting the balcony. Inside, an imposing Baroque marble staircase leads to the upper floors, which feature frescoes by Bazzani, the most celebrated Mantuan painter of the 18th century.
The ballroom houses a series of Flemish tapestries with mythological and bucolic subjects, created at the beginning of the eighteenth century and belonging to Bishop Giambattista Pergen.