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After years of neglect, a stately castle has been restored in the northern Italian countryside.
Near Brescia is the Padernello manor, which was once a defensive tower protected by a moat at the end of the 1300s. The Martinengo family owned the structure starting in 1391. The Martinengo were mercenary soldiers who left Bergamo during the 12th century and moved to Brescia to serve the Duchy of Milan and, later, the Republic of Venice.
