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Castle · Cervinara (AV)

Cervinara Castle

  • Visit: about 1 h 15 min
  • 442 m
Pictured: Cervinara · Decan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized and cropped

The medieval tower at the top of the Castello hamlet, Cervinara's original core, mentioned as a castrum as early as 837.

Cervinara's first nucleus coincides with the hamlet still called Castello today. A document of 837 mentions a castrum called Cerbinaria, and between the 9th and 10th centuries, in the Lombard period, the rural population gathered around this fortified village. In the following centuries the territory passed to various feudal families.What remains of that fortification today is a ruined medieval tower rising at the top of the hamlet. We suggest climbing up there to read, among the stones and the view, the origins of the town. We like to think that the story of all Cervinara, which later grew in the valley, began from this spot.

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