The Thun family established their seat in the Val di Non around the mid-thirteenth century, and by 1629 had risen to become Counts Thun-Hohenstein of the Holy Roman Empire, one of Trentino's most powerful noble houses.
Their castle survives as one of the best furnished in the region, its rooms still holding the family's original furniture, art and decoration, including the Stanza del Vescovo, a seventeenth-century room entirely paneled in Swiss pine with a coffered ceiling and a maiolica stove. The Autonomous Province of Trento purchased the castle in 1992 and spent eighteen years restoring it before reopening it to the public on April 17, 2010, as the fourth site in the Buonconsiglio Castle museum network, a milestone that finally let visitors inside a residence the same family had occupied for nearly seven centuries.
