Casa dei Colli

The “Casa dei Colli” was in origin a Monastery. This Monastery was built in the 14th Century on top of the ruins of an ancient Roman palace in what is today the territory of Monzambano. Most probably the Monastery was connected throught an underground tunnel to the church of San Leonardo nearby. After the religious period, the Monastery became a farmhouse.

Tosi Antonio, the great-grandfather of Mariangela Tosi, was born in this house in 1849. At the age of ten the witnessed the second war of independence of Italy against the Austro Hungarian Empire. The tower of San Martino reminds the ferocious battles of the Italians against the Austrians in this area and Monzambano self is famous for the dispute in 1959 between King Vittorio Emanuele II , who signed an armistice with the Austrians, and his prime minister Cavour, who was against it.
Andrea, the son of Antonio Tosi left the house to his 2 sons, Antonio and Giorgio. Together with his wife Marcella Brentel, who came from Belluno, Antonio lived and worked in Milano, but they both loved to spend time here, in the peace and beauty of the house in the hills.

In 2019 Mariangela, the only daughter of Antonio Tosi, together with her husband Aldo Pignataro started to think moving to Mozambano and after a lot of work to renovate the house and the garden and make it even more welcoming, they opened the guesthouse in july 2024.