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To stop and visit, a spectacular castle and almost unknown to many...it deserves a short stop also for the photographs

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Easy and flat route, accessible to everyone.

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Going there is a duty to welcome you and give you a perfect postcard and then you can have fun with fast routes

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It is an area where agriculture and the environment coexist and then it is possible to take beautiful, even challenging routes

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For a trip with the first sunny days it is perfect

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The pro castle was part of the defensive complex built during the 12th century by the counts of Biandrate.

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The partisans of the "Volante Loss" brigade, active throughout the Novara area and Valsesia between 1943 and 1945, had their hideouts and bases on the Novara Hills. The Bergamina farmhouse, which stands alone, was a particularly frequented and safe place for them. and hidden in a depression near the Strona. In support of the victims of the war and in thanks for the freedom and peace regained, the statue of the Madonnina was erected in the weeks immediately following April 25, 1945, sculpted in Candoglia marble by the sculptor Malerba of the Fabbrica del Duomo of Milan. The image was solemnly inaugurated on the first Sunday of August 1945. Video by FAI: https://m.facebook.com/FAIGruppoCollineNovaresi/videos/bergamina-di-sizzano-un-luogo-legato-alla-seconda-guerra-mondiale/456994452182655/

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Source and more info: https://www.comune.briona.no.it/it-it/vivere-il-comune/cosa-vedere/pieve-di-proh-17325-1-9b24ddef6e013c7cf2d9d591cba3d090

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For reasons of defense of men and products, the parish territory therefore saw the flourishing of castles and fortifications, a strong point of a civil and social nature, where the effective exercise of local power took place. Here the network of fortifications of the parish territory was organized by the Counts of Biandrate for strategic reasons and for better control over the territory, crops, products and men.

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It was also an artery of the "via Francisca" (what we would call today "Francigena") which, after skirting the Barengo hill, reached Proh, and then continued towards Novara or towards Biandrate and Vercelli.

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Proh was "caput plebs" until 1132, the year in which the transfer to Camodeia, today's Castellazzo Novarese, took place. With a certain probability the relevant territories coincided with the borders of the latter: Camodeia, Briona, Orre, Barengo, Sillavengo, Mandello Vitta, Proh and Agnellengo. The parish church was located in a strategic position and was crossed by the "biandrina road", which allowed internal communication within the possessions of the Counts of Biandrate

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Source: Municipality of Briona

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The fortress was seized by the Ducal Chamber of Milan together with the family possessions (including Castello di Vaprio). The family then managed to get the castle back in 1653 thanks to Manfredi's niece who had married the Marquis Pozzo D'Annone. The castle remained the property of the Pozzo D'Annone family until 1864, when they sold it to the Baron and General of Sabaudia Paolo Solari, diplomat and aide to Vittorio Emanuele II. In 1867 Solaroli was awarded the title of Marquis of Briona by King Vittorio Emanuele II. Relics belonging to Paolo Solaroli are visible in the Castle.

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.In 1449 the destiny of Briona was set in Melegnano: Francesco Sforza, set out to conquer the duchy of Milan, to repay his debt to Giovanni Tornielli who had been fighting at his side for two years, granted him "castrum and locum Brione" as a fief with all power to administer justice and collect the financial proceeds due to the administration of the State. In 1486, Tornielli wanted to live in Briona with his son Melchiorre and therefore decided to build, within the perimeter of the fortress, the fortress, one of the most evocative military buildings in the Novara area. Melchiorre's son, Manfredo sides with the French against Milan. His daughter Antonia Tornielli married Giovanni Battista Caccia known as "Cccetto" in 1597, who went to live in the fortress of Briona at least starting from 1598, guilty of many crimes and anti-Spanish activities, he was executed in Milan in 1609

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Starting from 1140 and until 1209 the castle was reconfirmed to the Biandrate family by subsequent imperial diplomas. During the 13th century. the properties of the counts were replaced by the possessions of the capital families, linked to Novara and its expansionist policy. With the advent of the Visconti lordship Briona entered the sphere of influence of the dominions of Milan. In 1356 it became the possession of the Viscontis who made it a base for their fights against the Marquises of Monferrato. As such, in 1363 it was sacked by the "white company" of the Englishman Albert Sterz that Giovanni Paleologo, Marquis of Monferrato, had hired and which devastated the Novara area for years.

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For the Count of Biandrate, the possession of the "castrum" of Briona constituted an important piece of the fortified system which was headed by the castles of Biandrate, Proh, Camodeia, Carpignano, Sizzano, Breclema and Seso, all placed to defend the accesses to Valsesia and all belonging to the Count of Biandrate.

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The location where the castle of Briona stands is remembered for the first time in 995 while the first written news of the presence of a fortification dates back to 1140. They are contained in an agreement between Count Guido of Biandrate and the canons of San Gaudenzio of Novara. The agreement established that the seigneurial rights would still belong to the canons, who owned the castle warehouses, while the military structure would go to Count Guido

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Castle in its current appearance from the 15th century. It is private and can be visited occasionally.

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https://www.castellodiproh.it/storia-del-castello/

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