The Collection
Antique Velocipedes and Bicycles – Private Collection A & C Azzini
After years of passionate research, Alfredo and Carlo Azzini opened the collection to the public in 2014.
Over 230 velocipedes and bicycles represent the evolution from the origins, with the draisine, to the 1940s for touring bicycles and to the 1950s for racing.
The exhibition drives you from the very early stage of bicycle industry thanks to 15 sections: the origins with the 19th century models as well as trycycles, the reverse levers with bicycles up to 1925, the classics with bicycles up to 1940, the Wunderkammer a true treasure chest of unique curiosities, the working bicycles, the TAURUS, children’s bicycles, technology’s room and many more categories.
The rich endowment of memorabilia with a workshop from the 1930s and the corner dedicated to Luigi Masetti.
Our Location
The Vertua-Robbiani palace
Built in 1821 by the noble family of the Counts Vertua, with the project entrusted to the Milanese architect Giacomo Moraglis, who thus created the first Milanese-style palace in Soresina.
The structure is therefore characterized by frizes ans arched masonry walls on the ground floor, with a large staircase leading to the main floor, closed at the beginning of the 1900s.
The interiors are still characterized today by large halls with frescoed barrel ceilings, the collection is housed in the part of the palace expanded in 1901.
At the end of the 19th century, the palace passed to the bourgeois Robbiani family of which Amilcare would be an enlightened industrialist and founder of the Latteria Soresina, the Credito Commerciale bank and many other industrial companies.
Antique Velocipedes and Bicycles
