Castelnuovo Bormida Castle

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Le château en bref

Castelnuovo Bormida Castle, in the province of Alessandria, originated in a tower and a receptum (a refuge enclosure) built between 1023 and 1033, perhaps beside a pre-existing villa and almost certainly by the bishops of Acqui, to whom Emperor Otto III had given part of the territory in 996. This foundation was part of the agricultural development of a marshy zone and of the control of the crossing of the Bormida. The site was chosen on a small rise called Altino, protected by a ditch fed by the river. Of the original construction the square tower and part of the wall, standing sheer above the river, survive. Passed to the Marquises of Montferrat, then to the Adorno of Genoa in the 14th century, it formed an advanced point in the territory of the Duchy of Milan. According to the original record, the castle is privately owned and now abandoned.