Peri Bigogno / The Winery
Peri Bigogno
The Winery
A jewel under a 1700's Palace
In 1946 the Peri family moved from Visano, southern part of Brescia, to the hill of Castenedolo, buying the Palace hold by Togni family.
The Palace was built in the first years of the 18th Century.
The most amazing part of the Palace was the entrance to the old cellar a huge stairs with marble steps went down
directly starting from the main door.
Seeing now the old stairs seemed that all the Palace was built to enhance the cellar and the whole wine production.
In the old picture of the postcard here, approximately from 1920’s, it’s still possible to see half barriques used as jars for the lemon trees in the garden.
In that period the cellar was already working…