Italy
The Castello Inferiore di Arnad (French: Château inférieur d'Arnad), also Castello Vallaise (French: Château Vallaise) or Palais de la Costetta, lies in the municipal territory of Arnad in the Aosta Valley.
Abandoned long ago or passed into private hands, this hill castle is among those in the Aosta Valley about which least is known.
The lower castle lies halfway up the hill on which the upper castle of Arnad stands. It is surrounded by terracing, perhaps to suggest an earlier ring wall. However, there are no documents at all about the castle from the 17th century, so that for the period before it there is no secure information.
Machine-translated from “Castello Inferiore (Arnad)” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Arnad Lower Castle ranks #7,888 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #546 of the 560 mapped in Italy. 12 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Turin, 63 km away. It is one of the 16 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Aosta Valley. It is stop 13 of 18 on the Aosta Valley castle route, Aosta to Ivrea. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.
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