ラウロの洞窟・トップ8

Beautiful tour with breathtaking views

The Castle of Monteforte was probably an ancient Roman castrum, on which a real castle was probably built by the Lombards in the 7th-8th century. But the history of Monteforte is very ancient: traces of its existence can be found already during the Second Punic War (fought between Rome and Carthage from 218 BC to 202 BC), when Annibale Barca passed through it on his way back from Capua towards Cannae, where he prepared the historic trap against the Romans. The first certain information we have about the village is contained in a document from 1102 preserved in the Montevergine Archives. In the Angevin period, it passed to the Princes of Montfort and Count Guido de Monfort lived there, who killed Prince Henry of England in 1271 in the cathedral of Viterbo. Having committed the crime, he was deprived of his possessions which passed to the Orsini family, whose lineage they remained in until 1806. The Castle was renovated and transformed into a summer residence by Charles of Anjou who lived there several times from 1271 to 1280. It was abandoned to itself from the 16th century; legend has it that who knows what treasures were buried in it, unfortunately this gave greedy hands the opportunity to complete its destruction.

Ruins of the Castle of the hamlet of Mercogliano "Capocastello"

Antico Castelletto belonged precisely to the Parise family as the name suggests, it is a pity that it is in a state of total abandonment, because, seen up close it is very beautiful and is characterized by the arches of the windows and the portal, very characteristic, too bad that be left to himself !!

Castelletto built by the Parise family that despite the passing of the years and the lack of care still retains its splendor.

Easy and panoramic single track.

The Castello village, the original nucleus of the Palmese community that developed on the top of the homonymous hill overlooking the town, https://www.buonapalmacampania.it/borgo-castello/

The hermitage of Santa Maria a Castello, otherwise called and therefore better known also as Castello di Lanzara, is located on the hill of Sant'Apollinare making it part of the hamlet of Trivio. It is located in an absolutely panoramic position, dominating the entire Nocerino Sarnese countryside, boasting a view that reaches as far as Pompeii and the island of Ischia. It is to all intents and purposes a fortress that boasts Lombard origins, within which a church was built more or less around the year 1300. The object of many political and religious disputes, the fortress is currently owned by the Parish of Lanzara and is in an excellent state of conservation and can be visited.