Casa Casellini (formerly the Tencalla Museum)
The building hosted for many years the Tencalla Museum; the Tencalla being a very old family of architects and artists from Bissone who left evidence of their craft in many European cities.
History
The house has belonged to the Casellini family for many generations. It is currently used as a private art gallery. Inside, on the first floor, the rooms used as kitchen and sitting room display coffered ceilings and stuccoed fireplaces of note. The façade incorporates significantly large windows surrounded by stark stone frames surmounted by architraves facing the lake supported by ledges. The inscription SOLI DEO/HONORE ET GLORIA (All honour and glory to God) is visible on the lower-window architraves
On the ground floor, under the wide portico, two portals marked off by pointed arches lead to rooms whence the stairs take one to the upper floors. The shape, proportions and stone working enable us to place them in the late medieval period.