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Camino Castle

Name: Camino Castle
Rating: 2

Recommended by 26 road cyclists

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Location: Camino, Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy

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1. Grazzano Badoglio. – View of Frassinello Monferrato loop from Vercelli

132km

06:10

1,490m

Hard road ride. Very good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride.

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2. View of Camino – Cathedral of Saint Eusebius loop from Vercelli

59.7km

02:41

390m

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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3. Monferrato Hills – View of Camino loop from Vercelli

88.4km

03:59

770m

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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Fabrizio Garofolo

January 19, 2022

One of the most spectacular castles in Monferrato and equipped with crenellated walls and towers.

As with many ancient buildings in Italy, there are many legends about the castle of Camino. One of the most recurrent narrates that in the year 1494, Count Scarampo Scarampi, feudal lord of the Marquis of Monferrato, was accused of making forays into neighboring villages causing problems such as thefts and fires. After a long siege of the castle, which lasted two months, it was captured by the militias of Costantino Aranite, prefect of Casale.
His wife, the Marquise Camilla, managed to escape from a secret passage and reach Casale to ask for a safe conduct for her husband's life. Scarampo Scarampi, however, had already been beheaded by those who had imprisoned him. When she learned of her husband's sad fate, out of desperation, the Marquise Camilla threw herself from the tower. Now, she walks around the battlements of the castle crying, while her husband walks around the manor with his head in his hand.
Legend aside, in the inner courtyard of the castle of Camino there is the sarcophagus of the noble Scarampo, depicted at rest holding his head with his left hand.

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Elevation 370 m

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Location: Camino, Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy

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1. Grazzano Badoglio. – View of Frassinello Monferrato loop from Vercelli

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