The suggestive eclectic manor house, its annexes and informal park are protected and secluded, along the northern margin of the village nucleus. They overlook San Martino Castle, the Morenic Anfi-theatre and the Serra. The first Realis who lived there, was Giuseppe who married Teresa Bersano, descendant of an ancient family from Parella (1827).

One of their daughters, Paolina, married the magistrate Guido Giacosa, father of Giuseppe, playwright, author and librettist of Puccini’s operas and of Piero, doctor and surgeon, professor at Turin University, director of the experimental pharmacological laboratory, scientist, painter and art expert. In the tub store-room are still preserved interesting pictures and scrolls with Latin mottoes . They date back to 1885 and are signed by Francesco Carandini, lawyer, prefect, historian and author, son of Elisa Realis, Paolina Giacosa’s daughter, and of the Marquis Federico, soldier, professor at the Infantry School in Ivrea, descended from a very ancient aristocratic family in Modena, noblemen from Bologna and Palatine Counts.