Innominato Castle - Vercurago - Lecco - Lombardy - Italy

The castle of the Innominato, so named because of the homonymous character of `I promessi sposi` by Alessandro Manzoni, is a fortified complex dating back to the fourteenth century located on the border between the municipalities of Vercurago and Lecco on the top of the Sacro Monte di Somasca in about 185 m asl The castle stands on a limestone hill known as the `Tremasasso` due to its landslides and inhabited since the early Iron Age by the Golasecca culture. Probably of early medieval origin, in the thirteenth century the castle was owned by the Benaglio family, vassals of the Della Torre of Milan and then became part of the possessions of the Republic of Venice after the peace of Lodi. The castle was destroyed several times and after being razed to the ground in 1799 during the Italian Suvorov campaign it was partially rebuilt by the Somascan fathers at the end of the 19th century. The first permanent settlement in the castle area dates back to the early Iron Age and was built by some members of the Golasecca culture, a Celtic population that developed between the 9th century BC. and the 5th century BC between eastern Piedmont and the Canton of Ticino.

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