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Forte di Gavi

Italy · 17th century

Founded
c. 1650
Architect
Giovanni Maria Olgiati
Heritage status
Italian national heritage
Location
Gavi
Visitors
≈3,526 (2022)
Coordinates
44.69133°, 8.80444°
Links
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Forte di Gavi in Italy
Photo: Alessandro Vecchi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Forte di Gavi is a historic fortress of a purely defensive type built by the Genoese on a pre-existing castle of medieval origin. It is state property and is used as a museum.

Once in the Republic of Genoa, today it is located in the Piedmontese town of Gavi, along the Via Postumia, which in antiquity linked the Republic of Genoa to Lower Piedmont (Monferrato) and to Lombardy.

Since 1946 it has been entrusted to the Ministry of Culture, which looks after its maintenance, promotion and enhancement, at first through the Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici del Piemonte, from 2015 with the Polo Museale del Piemonte and today with the Direzione Regionale Musei del Piemonte.

Since 2007 the Associazione Amici del Forte di Gavi has collaborated with the museum management of the Forte for the promotion and enhancement of the site. Since 2020 the director has been the architect Riccardo Vitale.

Inside the fortress, which is included in the "Castelli Aperti" circuit, historical re-enactments in costume, cycles of lectures, debates and exhibitions of photography and painting are held periodically. The project for the use of the structure for variety shows, music and theatre is being finalised. In 2016 it recorded 9,177 visitors.

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

In the rankings

Forte di Gavi ranks #6,996 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #489 of the 624 mapped in Italy. Founded c. 1650, it is older than 26% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 755 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. Wikidata records about 3,526 visitors in 2022. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Novara, 86 km away. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.

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