Palazzo Besta e Antiquarium Tellinum

The building has three above-ground storeys around a square courtyard with two orders of loggias. The main façade flanks the access road to the village. It is divided into two floors by a high band decorated with rhombuses. The windows vary in size and are surmounted by triangular tympanums, in the centre of which are painted roundels with profiles of illustrious men. The lunettes of the underside of the eaves are frescoed with the coats of arms of several important Telline families. The vaulted entrance hall is accessed through a large 16th-century white marble portal, not centred, but located near the southern corner. The square courtyard is the true heart of the house. A band decorated with grotesques and medallions enclosing portraits of figures dressed in the antique style, in which many would like to recognise the portraits of the Besta family, separates the first two floors. On the wall of the second floor are monochrome frescoes of stories from the Aeneid. A large garden enclosed by a wall surrounds it on three sides.