The building, in which the hotel “Il Cavalier d’Arpino” is located, was a XIX century woollen mill very flourishing in Arpino, a town of the Borbonic reign.
After the unification of Italy, Arpino’s woollen mills suffered a slow and unrelenting decline, and the closure of the magnificent factory followed. During the fascist period, was built a primary school dedicated to Benito Mussolini’s mother in the annex of the building.
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During the Second World War, Germans who occupied Arpino, used the great park surrounding the building like military base because of its centrality in the town.
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At the end of the war, the building was designed, mainly, for manufacturing activities; during the fifties the halls, that now are used as restaurant rooms were garages. It is only in the sixties that the rooms were gradually restructured and used as a restaurant, called exactly “Il Cavalier d’Arpino”, in honour of the famous painter Giuseppe Cesari. The restaurant became very soon a ideal place for the celebration of important events and, in 1999, the other annex of the building was renovated to give hospitality to the several visitors in Arpino