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Castello di Rivalta

Italy · 15th century

Founded
c. 1450
Heritage status
Italian national heritage
Location
Gazzola
Visitors
≈13,000 (2022)
Coordinates
44.95065°, 9.59073°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Castello di Rivalta in Italy
Photo: Parma1983 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Castello di Rivalta is an imposing fortified complex located in Rivalta, a hamlet of the Italian municipality of Gazzola, in the province of Piacenza.

Set on a steep escarpment (ripa alta) facing the bank of the river Trebbia, it has a position that is only slightly elevated but allows a wide view over the riverbed, which is very broad at this point, and the surrounding countryside. The castle of Rivalta, together with that of Statto and the castles of Montechiaro and Rivergaro, set on the opposite bank of the Trebbia, stood on the slopes of the first hills, where the river, hemmed in between the mountains to the south, begins to flow into the Po plain; they controlled access to the Val Trebbia of the caminus Genue, once an important route of communication with the Genoese territory and, therefore, the sea.

The castle is part of the Associazione dei Castelli del Ducato di Parma, Piacenza e Pontremoli.

Machine-translated from “Castello di Rivalta” on the Italian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Castello di Rivalta ranks #7,685 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #535 of the 624 mapped in Italy. Founded c. 1450, it is older than 47% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 596 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. Wikidata records about 13,000 visitors in 2022. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Milan, 65 km away. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.

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