Château Saint-Georges

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Château Saint-Georges (Castello di San Giorgio) stands at Magliaso, on the shore of Lake Lugano, in Ticino. Its origins are undocumented; it first appears in the sources in 1033. Its tall medieval tower retains fragments of Romanesque spiral decoration and a fresco which the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland counts among the rare examples of secular Romanesque painting in the country. The site is associated with the Bishop of Como, Landolfo da Carcano, captured during the war between Como and Milan. It later passed to a branch of the Rusca family of Como, and then to the Beroldingen, who developed it into a seigniorial residence.