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Castle of Serravalle

Italy · 12th century

Founded
c. 1121
Heritage status
Italian national heritage
Location
Bosa
Coordinates
40.29754°, 8.50479°
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Castle of Serravalle in Italy
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Description

The Castle of Serravalle (Italian: Castello di Serravalle) is a medieval castle in Bosa, province of Oristano, Sardinia, Italy.

It's named after the hill, overlooking the town of Bosa, on which it was built by the ancient Tuscany Malaspina family in the 13th century. It is on top of the hill of Serravalle, and it can be reached by a long, steep staircase.

The first nucleus of the Serravalle Castle was built on the homonymous hill: the date of its construction, traditionally fixed in 1121 by the humanist and historian Giovanni Francesco Fara is to be postponed, with the contribution of the excavations conducted by the archaeologist Marco Milanese, around the second half of 13th century In the vast Place-of-arms is located the small church of Our Lady de Sos Regnos Altos, the palatine chapel of the castle. In the interior of the sanctuary there are series of frescoes dating from the 14th century.

Text adapted from “Castle of Serravalle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Castle of Serravalle ranks #4,719 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #344 of the 555 mapped in Italy. Founded c. 1121, it is older than 84% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 763 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,833 times in the last 60 days, more than 67% of the atlas. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.

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