Top 14 Castles around Cavernago

Interesting: it's a shame it's in a state of total abandonment

This fascinating castle, built starting from the 12th century, once had a defensive function and housed the troops, as well as prisons and food warehouses. The garden can be visited every day, while the internal spaces are accessible on the first Sunday of the month from March to June and then from September to November.

Over the decades, in more recent times, the Visconti structure was also used as the site of an elementary school, but towards the end of the last century Castel Liteggio underwent a phenomenon of abandonment and degradation which continues to this day. In recent years, various proposals have been presented, by public and private bodies, for the recovery of the structure, however the lack of agreement between the interested parties has not allowed any restoration work to be started. The Castle, once considered an impregnable fortress, therefore seems definitively destined for ruin. Private property, after having repeatedly and in vain attempted an auction aimed at using the property as an accommodation facility / mini-apartment, has not demonstrated any intention to stop the increasingly rapid progress of structural degradation. Little or nothing remains of the village of Castel Liteggio and its inhabitants, who were its historical and cultural memory. The three farmhouses, which formed the backbone of the village, have completely changed their identity: Borghetto, after the restoration, became a B&B, Liteggio was rebuilt to house mini-apartments and a Relais, while little remains of the farmhouse in Via Fattoria, which collapsed in on itself in 2011. The remains of the latter and the small private church with tower and house, which stands in front of the Castle, have been put up for sale at auction.

Castel Liteggio was built in the 15th century by the Viscontis of Milan, as a defensive stronghold located in the Liteggio hamlet of the Municipality of Cologno al Serio, corresponding to the border between the Duchy of Milan and the Venetian Republic, traced by the "Fosso Bergamasco". Later the Castle was transformed into an elegant stately home with a large park. Castel Liteggio was a truly autonomous village, due to the presence of shops and internal houses, the abundance of water and the facing farmhouses which guaranteed complete autonomy for centuries, at least until the end of the eighteenth century. Subsequently Giovanni Maironi da Ponte reported Castel Liteggio as a district of the municipality of Cologno al Serio.

arrived at Castel Liteggio I took the road to the right for the first time: initially paved, it then becomes a comfortable dirt road which soon took me to Morengo

Also known as the Visconti Castle, the Rocca is located in the town of Romano di Lombardia in the north-west corner and was built from the 12th century and incorporated into the town's fortress as a military building. The ground floor houses the city's "Museum of Remembrance" in the "Great Hall". The Rocca di Romano di Lombardia, with a very imposing appearance, was part of the defensive system built in the 13th century and inserted in the part of the walls up to the first of the two moats that surrounded the village, originally resurrected from within Water that could never be drained, making the village, founded in 1171, unassailable thanks to the particular shape of an elongated shield. [2] The castle was for many centuries a military residence as well as a food and ammunition depot, remodeled over the centuries by the various Venetian feudal lords and podestà who occupied it and ruled the village. [3] The tower southwest of the Rocca The building visibly shows the different eras of construction and reconstruction. From the original 13th century part remains the "risega" of the foundation with parts in river cobbles and smoothed mortar and whitewash, same conformation of the walls and tower to the south. [4] During the Visconti occupation of Milan in the 14th and 15th centuries redesigned, the wall texture of rows of bricks alternating with river pebbles can be seen on the south tower. The most important changes were made during the Venetian rule after 1428. Changes were made to the two towers on the northeast and southwest for the upper part. For a few months in the fifteenth century it was the residence of the leader Bartolomeo Colleoni , a period in which he had alterations made that made the castle not only a military building but also a residential one, where the loggia was located near the north tower and the openings in the "hall representation" with three-arched windows, for this reason the building of the Pontesella del Soccorso was raised. In this century the last tower was built in the northwest. [4] New openings were then made on the north and west sides in the 19th century, while in the 20th century the restoration and consolidation works took place with the formation of the staircase that leads to the large courtyard on the ground floor. Source: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocca_di_Romano_di_Lombardia

Round trip starting from the Fui ' farmhouse going up to the Tower and passing through the S.Marco toll booth (Bagnatica)

The Castle with a square plan and a central courtyard was enlarged in volume and enriched with porticoes and loggias. Protected by two circles of walls raised compared to the original ones, it was surrounded by a second moat with access from the south and north via drawbridges. The entire complex thus became an inaccessible citadel, where brilliant court life was entertained, a destination for artists and illustrious guests. Much of the decorative and pictorial apparatus also dates back to the works commissioned by Colleoni, with a prevalence of frescoes in the French style, because the leader loved to surround himself with painters from Burgundy, linked to international Gothic.