Haus Devon

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Le château en bref

Devon House (Haus Devon) is a palazzo in Poschiavo (Grisons), located on Via dei Palazzi, a row of middle-class residences dating from the second half of the 19th century on the southern edge of the town centre. The district was designed by the podestà Tommaso Lardelli (1818–1908) and drawn up by the Italian architect Giovanni Sottovia. The houses were built by emigrants who had grown rich as pastry chefs and confectioners in cafés across Europe. Devon House dates from 1863; it was built for Pietro Pozzi, a confectioner in Porto. In 1908 it passed to the Semadeni family, who had run a café in Ilfracombe, in the English county of Devon, which is the source of its name. From 1957 to 1961, the writer Wolfgang Hildesheimer occupied the mezzanine floor; the house inspired the setting of his narrative *Tynset*. It is today the first stop on a literary trail devoted to Hildesheimer.