Castello di Torrechiara, Torrechiara, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Europe

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Torrechiara Castle is a 15th-century manor with medieval and Renaissance tracts, located on the top of a rocky panoramic cliff at the doors of Val Parma, is flanked by the small medieval village of Torrechiara, hamlet of Langhirano, in the province of Parma. Desired by Count Pier Maria II de 'Rossi as a mighty defensive structure and elegant nest of love for herself and the lover Bianca Pellegrini, is considered one of the most remarkable scenographic and best preserved castles d 'Italy. Since the 1911 Italian National Monument, protected by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Emilia-Romagna Museum, is included in the circuit of the Castelli Association of the Ducato of Parma and Piacenza. The castle stands at an altitude of 278 m asl. on the top of a terraced hill, whose eastern and southern flanks were raised at the time of the manor building to allow the construction of defensive structures. The mighty fortification develops on a nearly rectangular plant around the Central Court of Honor, with four quadrangular towers at the ends; is surrounded by the triple stone wall circle, modified at the end of the 16th century: the most exterior, demolished, rolled up the hill; the middle one, lowered, encircles the village extended to the north of the castle; the most internal, partially elevated, contradicts the manor. The building is also encircled by a double moat, originally dominated by two hoist bridges: the outermost, vanished, developed around the village; the most interior, still existing, surrounds the wall circle closest to the castle. Both ditches were designed dry by Pier Maria II de Rossi himself, so he wanted to prevent those who intend to attempt climbing to the castle had the chance to hide in the water. The manor house, lined with stone as well as brick on the top of the towers, rises on high slopes, specially built for structural and especially warlike reasons. In addition to the three wall circles, the two ditches, the double bridge decks and the two rivells, there are numerous defensive features originally found in the fortress, which still reveal the traces: the sinuous access path exposed to the shooting of archers; the wooden winds closing the spaces between the Ghibelline boulders, later covered by roofs; the compartmentable walkways; the long bastards with cadizies running on the perimeters of the towers and exterior facades of all the buildings; the massive doorman surmounted by dungeon. The eastern prospect differs from the others by the presence of the two fronts projecting from the towers, built at the end of the sixteenth century, lifting the ramparts of the inner circle; at the top there are two large panoramic loggias, overlooking the Val Parma and the plain.