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Transporting on the Via Francigena in 990, the archbishop of Canterbury, Sigerico, indicates the abbey of Santa Cristina, with his castle, such as the XL stage (Mansio). During the thirteenth century, the castle was completely reconstructed. One of the towers of the castle in front of the fort, in the north direction, arose the village (Ricetto), which was rebuilt in full in the 1600s. It looks like a homogeneous architectural complex protected at the entrance from a moat, from 2 Garitte and from 4 towers to the sides. From the monks of Santa Cristina, the castle first passed into the hands of the Pusterla family and then in those of the Visconti. From 1700 to 1730 at the behest and financing of Cardinal Agostino Cusani Visconti (1655-1730), Ambassador of the Pope at the Republic of Venice and to the Court of Louis XIV of France, the castle was expanded and transformed by a medieval fortress into a real palace, where popes, emperors and kings stayed; In this period the representative rooms were embellished with stuccos and paintings made by Tiepolesca school artists.