Our history
The Residence Castel was founded in 1964 as a hotel building by the Rossitto-Nani spouses. The Castel pension stands on the traces of the ancient tower built by the hermit Proff. Erminio Dioli (1855-1964), who, in 1926, chose to buy for himself a large rural plot of land and rock in Sasso Gianaccio in the Costi area. Here he builds his residence, consisting of a three-storey tower, the "gallinarium" (the house of the hens where "between songs a fruit comes to light that contributes so much to human prosperity") in the south garden. Dioli, graduated at the Polytechnic of Turin in ornamental design, he transferred his knowledge to the Valley, where he studied nature, art, and thanks also to the liberty influence of the period, he created his style the Malenchino . After various artistic experiences in 1944 in Northern Italy and Northern Europe, he retires to live as a "hermit" in his tower, with only the company of a goat and a few hens, dedicating himself to every form of artistic expression (ornamental, pictorial, carving, sculpture, advertising) and to the care of their botanical garden.
In 1963 the surveyor Rossitto buys the land property and the tower from Dioli and, with his wife Ilda Nani, builds two side buildings where the Castel guesthouse will be located, known above all to German customers, who spend several holiday periods in the Palù ski area. Currently the building, completely renovated at the end of the 90s of the last century, and inherited to the nephews Massimo and Barbara from the uncles Franco and Ilda, consists of various apartments, with an outdoor garden on the ground floor, a beautiful wood with trees centuries-old, and large parking spaces. The residence has kept intact the historical-architectural characteristics of the original systems and thanks to its location on the prominence of the Gianaccio stone it is still today, a witness of history, tradition and modernity.
