Palazzo Pfanner

The construction of Palazzo Pfanner dates back to 1660. It was the Moriconi family, members of the Lucca merchant nobility that commissioned its building. Demolished around insolvency the Moriconi family was constrained in 1680 to pitch the working to the Controni family, silk trader who had ascended to the respectability. The Controni family broadened the working: around 1686 they managed the working of the great momentous staircase, apparently on the plans of the Lucca planner Domenico Martinelli, dynamic particularly in the European capitals of Vienna and Prague; toward the start of the eighteenth century they dispatched, no doubt, Filippo Jura to overhaul the garden behind; still in a similar period they endowed nearby 'quadraturisti' painters with finishing the vaults of the staircase and within the refined habitation.

It is in the living arrangement that the Controni family offered cordiality to Prince Frederick of Denmark who was making a Grand Tour of Italy. The Pfanner family ended up included with the exceptionally old history of the Palazzo Pfanner towards the center of the nineteenth century. It was in fact Felix Pfanner 1818-1892, a neighborhood brewer from Hörbranz Austria, however from a Baian family, who dynamically gained the whole structure subsequent to having set up his bottling works there in 1846, the first in the Duchy of Lucca and one of the first in Italy.