Castello del Drosso, Beinasco

Cistercian monks of the Abbey of Staffarda built the first settlement on the banks of the Sangone stream. At the end of the 1330s, the building passed to the Vagnone family, that lived in the Drosso until the end of the XV century, and turned the cistercian grange into a proper castle, equipped with towers, thus creating the so-called Drosso Castle.

A square plan of three storeys above the ground, with four corner towers, built in bricks and gathered around an inner yard: this is how the building looks like today, after repeated changes which did not affect its fortification nature. In 1539, Count Gugliemo Gromis di Trana acquired most of the property, turning it into a palace for the noble families that visited the nearby ducal castle of Mirafiori. The portico on the western side of the uppermost storey is probably the most telling trace of this conversion. The building belonged to the Stupinigi hunting reserve, and this is why it is portrayed in a series of paintings on deer hunt by Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli.

In 1860, a restoration was carried out by the Gromis with romantic and medieval inspiration.
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