Built in the Middle Ages by the Prefects of Vico to guard the only natural access to the city, in the following centuries it often changed ownership, purpose and shape. It was the prerogative of the Counts of Anguillara, Della Rovere and Farnese from 1526 to 1649, under the ownership of the Della Rovere the fortress underwent the greatest changes, in particular between 1475 and 1480 with the renovation commissioned by Pope Sixtus IV and entrusted to the Florentine architect Giovanni Dolci who added the circular keep and the four fortified towers at the corners, which among other things gave the castle its current popular name "I Torrioni".

Very eminent figures stayed there, including Pope Sixtus IV and Pope Paul III, but then, in 1649, it passed into the hands of the Holy See, which ceded it in 1756 to the Genoese Girolamo Marè, who, although committed to its conservation and embellishment, left it in a state of abandonment.
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