Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
A building of medieval origin built over seven centuries ago as a fortress, surrounded by a vast landed estate, it later became one of the principal noble residences of the Piacenza countryside. Today, the castle appears as a solid rectangular building, with four square towers of varying sizes at the corners. At the center of the façade, guarding the portal that leads to the internal courtyard, is the keep. The entire palace is surrounded by a dry moat. A series of service buildings, once stables and carriage houses, border the large grassy square in front of the façade. From the palace's entrance portal, a straight road branches off to the north, connecting to the public road. In the 19th century, it continued straight through the fields for five kilometers, reaching the Via Emilia (the so-called Stradone Marazzani). Through the portal, one enters the palace's internal courtyard, surrounded by an elegant loggia with columns and capitals (those on the eastern side have Renaissance features). Aligned with the entrance portal, on the opposite side is a second entrance that leads to the back of the palace, where the 19th-century garden once stood. To the south of the palace is a secondary entrance connected to the narrow road that runs through the cultivated fields. The state of conservation is precarious, but not desperate and projects for its definitive recovery are to study and the return of the good to its original splendor seems to be consolidated. In the meantime, however, there are perpetrated thefts against the artistic and decorative heritage, 2002, saw the removal of the eighteenth -century doors, the fireplace and a colonnade capital that caused the collapse of the column below and a part of the attic.
A building of medieval origin built over seven centuries ago as a fortress, surrounded by a vast landed estate, it later became one of the principal noble residences of the Piacenza countryside. Today, the castle appears as a solid rectangular building, with four square towers of varying sizes at the corners. At the center of the façade, guarding the portal that leads to the internal courtyard, is the keep. The entire palace is surrounded by a dry moat. A series of service buildings, once stables and carriage houses, border the large grassy square in front of the façade. From the palace's entrance portal, a straight road branches off to the north, connecting to the public road. In the 19th century, it continued straight through the fields for five kilometers, reaching the Via Emilia (the so-called Stradone Marazzani). Through the portal, one enters the palace's internal courtyard, surrounded by an elegant loggia with columns and capitals (those on the eastern side have Renaissance features). Aligned with the entrance portal, on the opposite side is a second entrance that leads to the back of the palace, where the 19th-century garden once stood. To the south of the palace is a secondary entrance connected to the narrow road that runs through the cultivated fields. The state of conservation is precarious, but not desperate and projects for its definitive recovery are to study and the return of the good to its original splendor seems to be consolidated. In the meantime, however, there are perpetrated thefts against the artistic and decorative heritage, 2002, saw the removal of the eighteenth -century doors, the fireplace and a colonnade capital that caused the collapse of the column below and a part of the attic.
