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Castle Murat

Italy

Heritage status
Italian national heritage
Location
Pizzo
Visitors
≈40,000 (2022)
Coordinates
38.73546°, 16.16034°
Links
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Castle Murat in Italy
Photo: Sergio Spolti · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Castello di Pizzo is located in Pizzo, a small town in Calabria in the province of Vibo Valentia, and is also known as Castello Murat, in memory of Joachim Murat, who in 1815 was first imprisoned here and then shot on 13 October of the same year. The castle can be visited and houses a museum, in whose rooms an exhibition is set up illustrating the last days of its illustrious prisoner, from his incarceration to the trial and to the confession that preceded his execution by firing squad, and a fragment of a sculpture by Antonio Canova, lost during the passage of Giuseppe Garibaldi, of which only the part representing a helmet remains.

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

In the rankings

Castle Murat ranks #5,456 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #393 of the 624 mapped in Italy. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,431 times in the last 60 days, more than 66% of the atlas. Wikidata records about 40,000 visitors in 2022. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.

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