Marelli Palace

This was the mansion, built in 1689 near the parish church of St. George, by Count Jean-Pierre Marelli, general superintendent of arms and munitions of the House of Savoy, who a few years earlier had received the territory of Hône as a fiefdom. The building was developed horizontally and was characterized by the presence of gardens and internal vegetable gardens. From the earliest days, however, what had been conceived as a stately palace was used as a farmstead, and by the first decades of the 1700s, it was already heavily deteriorated in structure. In the mid-1800s Giovanni Antonio Colliard, longtime mayor of Hône, purchased the palace and remained its owner until the middle of the following century.