Reggio Emilia

Carpineti Castle (Castello di Carpineti)

Edited by

Davide Mangolini

Fortifications

Other denominations

Castello di Carpineti e pertinenze/Castello di S. Pietro e pertinenze/ Castello S. Pietro/ Castello di Carpineti o di S. Andrea/ Chiesa di S. Andrea/ Ex canonica della Chiesa di S. Andrea/ Casa Torre Valcavi/Chiesa Parrocchiale di S. Andrea del Castello

D'Este's People

Niccolò III

Description

Today, the impressive ruins of Carpineti are still a highly evocative testimony of one of the most important Matildic castles. The key structures used for the defence of the castle – the concentric wall enclosures and the mighty watchtower rising within them – are clearly recognisable. The outer curtain wall, adapting to the orographic conformation, has an irregular, approximately trapezoidal shape on a south-north axis and an access opening cut into a tower with a semi-cylindrical terminus located at the south-western apex of the circuit. In the innermost enclosure, close to the eastern curtain wall, stands the tall, square stone-built tower with modest openings on its southern and western sides. The castle wall circuit also protected within its walls the two-storey nobleman’s palace, the chapel dedicated to Saint Mary and equipped with a sacristy, service buildings and a few dwellings. Outside the fortified core there was also a small village with few surviving architectural traces, among which is the church of Sant’Andrea, attested as early as 1077.

Useful information

Address

via Castello

Municipality

CARPINETI

Hamlet

Castello

Province

Reggio Emilia

Diocese

Diocesi di Reggio Emilia-Guastalla

Other addresses

strada provinciale 76

Themes

Fortification

Website

http://www.castellodicarpineti.it/

Tourer

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