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IL PALAZZO DEL MARCHESE
IN THE ENTIRE AMASENO’S VALLEY DURING THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY THERE WAS AN UNSETTLED POLITICAL SITUATION. THINGS LIKE THAT HAPPENED BY MOVING OF MERCENARY TROOPS, THE ECCLESIASTIC ANARCHY AND NOT LEAST THE DECLINE OF THE CECCANO’S COUNTY.
ALL THESE HISTORICAL PHENOMENONS INDUCED THE AUTHORITY TO RESTORE THE ANCIENT CASTLE.
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THE PERIMETER OF THE PRIMARY WALL IS ENOUGH RECOGNIZABLE BARRING THE SUBSEQUENT REBUILDINGS. THE HINGE OF DEFENSIVE WORK WAS THE CECCANO’S FORTRESS THAT NOWADAYS EVERYBODY KNOWS LIKE THE PALACE OF THE MARQUIS OR THE ENCHANTED PALACE TOO. BUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FORTRESS DIMINISHED BECAUSE THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW GATES OF S.STEFANO AND SLOWLY DECLINED. BUT DURING THE EIGHTTEENTH CENTURY ROSE AGAIN WHEN GIACOMO JORIO, SON OF MARCANTONIO, BAILIFF OF THE COLONNA’S FAMILY, BOUGHT THE ANCIENT FORTRESS AND MADE IT A MAGNIFICENT MANSION WITH A SMALL CASEMATE CLOSE THE S.SEBASTIAN’S CHURCH , WHERE IS VISIBLE IN THE DOOR’S ARCHITRAVE THE BLAZON OF THIS COUNTRY GENTLEMAN: A GARLANDED COLUMN WITH THE DATE OF 1787 AND HIS INITIAL LETTERS. THE CASTLE-MANSION STANDS ON THE BORDER OF THE ABYSS OF VALLEREA IN A STRATEGIC POINT WITH THE ENTRANCE INSIDE THE COUNTRY.
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NOWADAYS REMAINS ONLY AN HALF TOWER EMBEADED IN A NEW EDIFICE. FROM THIS TOWER WE COULD SEE THE FULL EXTENT OF THE CASTLE’S AREA WHERE THE CHURCH OF S.SEBASTIAN OR THE GARRISON’S CHAPEL WITH A MISSING TOWER GOT TOGETHER THE WALL TO THE GATE OR THE INEXTRICABLE LABYRINTH OF STREETS AND NARROW PASSAGES THAT TODAY WE CAN FIND ALONG ROCCA’S ROAD OR FOLLEWED WITH THE EYES ALONG THE ROOFS OF THE HOUSES OF UMBERTO I PLACE.
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BUT WHAT IS THE REASON OF HIS NAMING? THERE ARE DIFFERENT THEORIES, SOME IMAGINATIVE SOME UNRELIABLE. THE RIGHT REASON IS UNKNOW, UNKNOW LIKE THE MYSTERY OF THE GHOST’S APPARITIONS OR THE STRANGE SCULPTURE SET IN THE WALL OF THE SOUTHSIDE OF THE MANSION THAT THE OLD MEN CALLED " BELLA CAMILLA ".
| Extracts | Panarda | Tower | Cegneraro | S.Maria | P.za del Mercato | P.za Umberto I | La Portella |
| San Giovanni | Campodoglio | San Pietro | S.Maria della Stella | The Districts | S.Sebastiano | Il Palazzo del Marchese |