Castello di Alviano (Alviano)

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The manor is located in the southern part , and oldest , of the town of Alviano (TR).
The Castello di Alviano , as it stands today , a typical example of Renaissance castle that coexist in which the characteristics of defensive bulwark and residential building, was built in 1490 by architect Bartolomeo d' Alviano and commander of a fortress built around pre-existing to 995 by Count Offredo Monaldo III , Count of Nocera .
The fortress, strategically located on the Tiber valley , has a trapezoidal shape, surrounded by the settlement , and has four corner towers circular bastions , a residential three floors, plus attic covered with a pitched wooden roof tiles, a door d ' entrance adorned with a lion and a head of Medusa . within a beautiful Renaissance courtyard with double loggia , onto which a variety of environments and fittings.
It should in particular signaled the chapel which contains a series of frescoes of the seventeenth century. These include a representation of the miracle of St. Francis and the swallows , which took place in 1212 just Alviano , when the holy silenced the many swallows. Among the frescoes is also the face of Donna Olimpia , the buyer of those frescoes . It is instead the contemporary work of Bartolomeo face depicted in the council chamber , the features are real ones , taken from a coin minted by the sixteenth century the Republic of Venice .
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