{"id":38238,"date":"2022-08-04T12:09:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/arte-e-cultura\/castello-di-castelnovo-val-tidone\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:09:50","slug":"castello-di-castelnovo-val-tidone","status":"publish","type":"arte-e-cultura","link":"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/castello-di-castelnovo-val-tidone\/","title":{"rendered":"Castelnovo Val Tidone Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Castelnovo Val Tidone castle, in the municipality of <a href=\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/places\/borgonovo-val-tidone\/\">Borgonovo<\/a>, is a fortress built on the former castle ruins (from this detail the choice of the name &#8220;Castelnovo&#8221; i.e. new castle).<\/p>\n<h3>Castelnovo Val Tidone castle, the story<\/h3>\n<p>The building hosted in 1155 Frederick I Barbarossa, the famous emperor of the Roman Empire.<br \/>\nTHe building was damaged and reconstructed several times because of many battles and sieges. Despite them, the building has well preserved its original XIV century structure.<\/p>\n<h3>The structure<\/h3>\n<p>The interior spaces were refined between the XVII and the XVIII centuries, when the castle became the country residence for the Marazzani Visconti Family.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the XVIII century some important and structural renovation work happened. Nowadays the castle has a trapezoid shape with round-shaped towers at the corners. Inside there&#8217;s a remarkable charming courtyard with a Travertino well from the XVI century. Despite many reconstructions the army style of the castle is still pretty visible, with some references to the XIV century Lombard architecture. A huge park is surrounding the fortress, with old trees and some XVIII century sculptures.<\/p>\n<h3>Current use<\/h3>\n<p>It is currently the summer holiday residence of the Princes De Ferrari of Genova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The castle of Castelnovo in Tidone Valley is a fortress built on the former castle ruins ( from this detail the choice of the name \u201cCastelnovo\u201d new castle). The building hosted in 1155 Federico Barbarossa, the famous emperor of the Roman Empire. Castelnovo castle has been damaged and reconstructions many time because of many battles and sieges. Despite these, the building has well preserved its original XIV century structure. The interior spaces were refined between the XVII and the XVIII centuries, when the castle became the country residence for the Marazzani Visconti Family. At the end of the XVIII century some important and structural renovation works happened. Nowadays the castle has a trapezoid shape with towers round-shaped at the corners. Remarkable is the charmy courtyyard with a marble well from the XVI century. Despite many reconstructions, it\u2019s still pretty visible the army style of the castle, with some remainds to the XIV century Lombarda architecture. A huge park is surrounding the fortress, with old trees and some XVIII century sculptures. Currently is the summer holiday residence of the Princes De Ferrari of Genova. It\u2019s only open to the tourists during particular occasions like guided visits; these tours are planned as walking paths into the romantic garden, the honour courtyard, titled \u201cthe well\u201d, the pink hall, the neo-gothic dining room, the fireplace livingroom and the castel Chapel. The castle is available for celebrations, ceremonies, meeting, exhibitions, concerts, photogrphy and cinematrography filmings.","protected":false},"featured_media":19159,"template":"","territorio":[934],"categorie_arte_e_cultura":[925],"class_list":["post-38238","arte-e-cultura","type-arte-e-cultura","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","territorio-val-tidone-en","categorie_arte_e_cultura-villages-and-castles"],"acf":{"location":{"lat":"44.9884429","lng":"9.4429264","address":" Castelnovo, Val Tidone Piacenza"},"tariffe":"<p>Full price ticket: 10 euros<br \/>\nfrom 6 to 13 years old kids: 5 euros<br \/>\nUp to 6 years old kids: free entrance<\/p>\n","accessibilita_disabili":"","orario":"","chiusura_settimanale":"","contatti_iat":false,"iat":33745,"localita":33144},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Castelnovo Val Tidone Castle - Visit Piacenza<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Currently the Castelnovo castle is the summer residence of the princes De Ferrari of Genova.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/castello-di-castelnovo-val-tidone\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Castelnovo Val Tidone Castle - 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