Castle
Castello Cantelmo
🇮🇹 Italy
Castello Cantelmo (Italian for Cantelmo Castle) is a Middle Ages castle in Pettorano sul Gizio, province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, southern-central Italy.
The castle, built around the 11th century, overlooks the Gizio river valley and the Valle Peligna. It has an irregular plan with cylindrical, massive towers at the north-western and south-western corners, while at south-eastern one are the remains of a quadrangular tower. In the middle is a pentagonal tower, which is the most ancient part of the castle.
Text adapted from “Cantelmo Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castello Cantelmo ranks #3,934 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #301 of the 350 mapped in Italy. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.
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