 The external walls were decorated with merlons and the entire building acquired a neo-gothic savour in line with the romantic spirit of that time.In 1932, the family donated the castle to the Italian state and commissioned Engineer Eleuterio Mutto's design for converting the castle into a nursing home ("Asilo di Quiete Bevilacqua-La Masa").In 1945 the castle was entrusted to the Salesian Society, who used it as a boarding school until 1966.