Castello di Moruzzo

Castello di Moruzzo began as a defensive stronghold and, over the centuries, was transformed into a noble residence. The most significant works, carried out between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, gave it its present form, though they partly obscured its original character. The walls were stripped of their battlements and buttresses, existing towers were remodelled, and new semicircular towers were added.

The complex consists of two enclosures separated by a moat, once linked by a drawbridge protected by a tower. It includes a keep, two nineteenth-century turrets, five semicircular towers, an entrance tower, and a series of buildings to the west. The keep, at the highest, easternmost point, is four storeys high with an angled base; its entrance leads to a rectangular inner courtyard enclosed by a high wall. The main façade, with its asymmetrical openings and irregular dimensions, clearly reveals the building interventions of different eras. The outer wall of the borgo survives, elongated and punctuated by five semicircular turrets and a square gate-tower, with low buildings of various periods, including recent ones, built against it.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.