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Originally the castle was a monastery and the current tower was the bell tower. During the fifteenth century, a first defensive structure was added by the Marquis del Carretto to which followed subsequent renovations and extensions, such as the medieval arc that unites the castle to the tower. The tower, 27 meters high in Lombardy style, has friezes and hanging arches made of bricks and stones. Today the castle has a seventeenth -century facade and maintains the sixteenth -century loggia on the back which can also be visited. The Carletto family in the middle of the 19th century ceded the property to the Rovere family followed by the Polleri family of Genoa who sold it to the Municipality, current owner. In front of the castle, the characteristic raised bridge and to access inside it is necessary to cross the old entrance door in the ancient walls. The visit begins along the external perimeter of the castle to understand the location and history of the structure over the centuries. Then you enter the noble floors, whose rooms, transformed in the seventeenth century, have mosaic floors and sailing ceilings and cruise frescoed with floral and geometric motifs. The visit continues with the walkways on the top and ends in the spacious cellars.
Originally the castle was a monastery and the current tower was the bell tower. During the fifteenth century, a first defensive structure was added by the Marquis del Carretto to which followed subsequent renovations and extensions, such as the medieval arc that unites the castle to the tower. The tower, 27 meters high in Lombardy style, has friezes and hanging arches made of bricks and stones. Today the castle has a seventeenth -century facade and maintains the sixteenth -century loggia on the back which can also be visited. The Carletto family in the middle of the 19th century ceded the property to the Rovere family followed by the Polleri family of Genoa who sold it to the Municipality, current owner. In front of the castle, the characteristic raised bridge and to access inside it is necessary to cross the old entrance door in the ancient walls. The visit begins along the external perimeter of the castle to understand the location and history of the structure over the centuries. Then you enter the noble floors, whose rooms, transformed in the seventeenth century, have mosaic floors and sailing ceilings and cruise frescoed with floral and geometric motifs. The visit continues with the walkways on the top and ends in the spacious cellars.
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The first municipality in the Veneto region by surface area and second by population after Verona, it includes both island and mainland territories and is structured around the two main centres of Venice (in the centre of the lagoon of the same name) and Mestre (on the mainland). It is part of the Eurocities network of the largest European cities. The city was the capital of the Serenissima Republic of Venice for 1,100 years and is known in this regard as the Serenissima, the Dominant and the Queen of the Adriatic: for its urban peculiarities and its artistic heritage, it is universally considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world, declared, together with its lagoon, a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, which has contributed to making it the second Italian city after Rome with the highest tourist flow. Between the 10th and 16th centuries it was one of the greatest naval and mercantile powers in the Mediterranean, with interests in particular towards the East. Together with Cannes and Berlin, it is considered one of the capitals of European cinema, thanks to the International Film Festival.")
