The Rinaldi family has Germanic origins and arrived in Treviso in the 13th century following the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. They were important land and historic home owners throughout Treviso, Venice and the neighboring territories.
In 1800 a part of the family settled in the beautiful Villa Rinaldi in Casella d’Asolo.
One of the daughters of the last heir in the Rinaldi family branch married a De Lord of French origins and the names of the two families have remained united ever since.
In the years prior to the Second World War, Mariuccia Carosio, the daughter of an Italian engineer who had emigrated to Argentina (founder of Italcable), met her future husband, Rinaldo De Lord Rinaldi, while on vacation in Cortina.
Mariuccia Carosio married Rinaldo De Lord Rinaldi in 1940 and decided that their home would be the villa that she had always been so drawn to. The one bearing the name of the cardinals’ headpiece “Il Galero”, at the foot of Asolo’s fortress, fortuitously vacant at the time.
With great love, good taste and dedication, she further enhanced the interior spaces, gardens and surrounding park land of the villa to create an oasis of refined beauty where she raised her three children, Amedeo, Giovanni and Cristina. Over the years she hosted a great many guests and important figures from the world of the arts who loved spending time in the magical town of Asolo.
Il Galero remains a point of reference for the entire family to this day. A place where they can be together and feel at home, protected by important values and traditions.
In 2017 Mariuccia’s daughter, Cristina, along with her two daughters Alessia and Delfina, have decided to open the doors of their beloved villa to extend their hospitality to a sensitive public, able to grasp the exclusivity of its refined style.