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Malaspina Castle

Italy

Style
Medieval architecture
Heritage status
Italian national heritage
Location
Fosdinovo
Visitors
≈1,900 (2021)
Coordinates
44.13567°, 10.02118°
Links
OpenStreetMap · Wikimedia Commons
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Malaspina Castle in Italy
Photo: Davide Papalini · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Castello Malaspina is a historic residence protected by the Soprintendenza per i beni artistici e architettonici. It is located in the village of Fosdinovo in the province of Massa Carrara, in the historical region of Lunigiana. Among the castles of Lunigiana it is the largest and best preserved structure, the object of an intensive restoration campaign in 1960–1965 that repaired the devastation caused to it by the Second World War.

The castle of Fosdinovo was the principal residence of the Marquis of Fosdinovo, belonging to one of the branches of the Malaspina dello Spino Fiorito, from the 14th to the 18th century, and is today the property of the Torrigiani-Malaspina family, descended through the female line from the Malaspina. The structure can be visited and is fully furnished.

Machine-translated from “Castello Malaspina (Fosdinovo)” on the Italian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Malaspina Castle ranks #6,265 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #437 of the 624 mapped in Italy. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 949 times in the last 60 days, more than 53% of the atlas. Wikidata records about 1,900 visitors in 2021. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 52 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Tuscany. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.

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