Castle
Graines Castle
🇮🇹 Italy
The Castle of Graines is a castle in Val d'Ayas, located near the village with the same name in the municipality of Brusson, Aosta Valley, northern Italy.
It occupies the summit of a rocky spur which commands Brusson and most of the Val d'Ayas. In medieval times, it communicated through flag or mirror messages with the nearby Bonot Tower and the Villa Castle in Challand-Saint-Victor.
According to a legend, a large treasure lies buried under the castle.
Text adapted from “Graines Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Graines Castle ranks #5,780 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #425 of the 487 mapped in Italy. 8 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Turin, 74 km away. It is one of the 16 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Aosta Valley. It is stop 10 of 18 on the Aosta Valley castle route, Aosta to Ivrea. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Graines Castle?
Graines Castle stands in Italy, at 45.73827°, 7.75426°.
How famous is Graines Castle?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #5,780 of 8,134 worldwide, and #425 in Italy. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Graines Castle?
Savoy Castle (Gressoney-Saint-Jean), about 6 km away.
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