Harlequin House Museum

The building that now houses the museum is of medieval origin and probably had a defensive function for the village, located along the Via Mercatorum.
It became a stately home between the 15th and 17th centuries, when it was purchased and renovated by the powerful local Grataroli family, who boasted great wealth acquired in Venice, whose architectural taste they also brought: their palace is the only example of Venetian architecture in the Brembana Valley. The Grataroli family had the house decorated with valuable frescoes, which can still be seen today upon entering the great hall: the Picta Room.
The frescoes, datable to the second half of the 15th century, testify to the rise of the family through the intercession of healing saints linked to popular devotion and through the depiction of a knightly tournament where the Grataroli, distinguishable by the presence of a gratarola (a grater) drawn on their shield, defeat their enemies by demonstrating their power to the noble families of the Valley, depicted in the coats of arms that surround the scene.
At the entrance to the palace, however, a fresco depicting a man holding a stick accompanied by the inscription can be seen: Chi no è de chortesia, do not intrigue in my house. Se ge venes un poltron, ghe dare del mio baston. This painting is a representation of theHomo Sevadego, a popular figure widespread in Rhaetian-Alpine communities and a metaphor for man's attachment to his land and his relationship with the cycles of nature.