The Visocchi Palace assumed its current form between the first and second half of the 18th century, presumably by assembling pre-existing building sections, under the initiative of Gaetano Visocchi, land portulan (land official) in Terra di Lavoro.
It still retains a well-preserved exterior with light late Baroque decorations and wrought iron railings. The interior also remains largely intact in its 18th-century layout, which includes, in ascending order from the ground floor: cellars, service floor, kitchens and pantries, the main floor for receptions, private apartments, and granaries.
On the main (noble) floor lies the gallery with large halls, the central one decorated with neoclassical motifs on the walls and, on the ceiling, mythical figures gathered around Mercury.
Parallel to the gallery are the bedrooms, featuring tempera decorations on walls and ceilings inspired by the four seasons. In the dining room, there is a rare example of wallpaper known as “French paper,” produced in the early 19th century using continuous machine methods by the Lefevre paper mills of Isola del Liri, an industrial town then known as the "Italian Manchester."
Of particular note is the presence of a private chapel with a choir loft, accessible from within the palace, and open to the public during celebrations of Our Lady of Loreto—its dedicatee—and Corpus Christi, following ancient local traditions.
Monsignor Aniceto Ferrante, from Alvito and bishop of Gallipoli, was born in this house in 1823, during a brief stay by his mother, who was hosted by her sister.
Also born here, in 1899, was Luigi Visocchi, an engineer and one of the technicians who worked alongside Umberto Nobile in building the airships for expeditions to the North Pole. He later followed Nobile to Russia in the 1930s when the General was invited by the Soviet government to construct airships.
From its origins, the palace has belonged to the Visocchi family, who settled in the Comino Valley at the end of the 16th century, thanks to a feudal privilege granting a fief to the ancestor Biagio Visocchi, an ensign in the army of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, originally from Northern Europe, likely Poland.
The Visocchi family held military and administrative positions for generations until the unification of Italy. A cadet branch of the family, locally known as “the outside Visocchis” (referring to their residence outside Atina’s town walls), became prominent in industry, agronomy, and politics.