On the first floor of the Hinderbachian palace, this elegant room is decorated with a pictorial frieze – a full expression of Renaissance culture – frescoed in the first half of the 16th century with festive putti, holding banners and cornucopias, and interspersed with old Sileni. A curious chandelier of Tyrolean tradition, with a sculpture mounted on deer antlers, completes the décor.

Mentioned in a document of 1163 and restructured several times over the centuries, the room retains its original large hood and fireplace, elements that suggest its probable use as a kitchen. It is now furnished with utensils and crockery from the museum’s collections. An adjacent room, small and private, is equipped with a concealed toilet.

The name of the hall – created during the expansion on the top floor of the ancient Casa Murata – derives from the painted frieze executed during the sixteenth-century renovations commissioned by Prince-Bishop Bernardo Cles: personifications of Virtues and Liberal Arts gaze through eye-like openings in faux marble slabs, adorned with hanging branches with leaves and fruits.

An imposing fireplace in exquisite black Ragoli stone characterises the large room on the top floor of the Hinderbach Palace. The walls are decorated with a pictorial frieze commissioned in the 16th century by Bishop Bernardo Cles: faux draperies adorned with grotesque depictions of Clesian feats move away to show lively battle scenes. From the windows, a vast panorama of the Bleggio basin can be enjoyed.