l castello di Montalera è una castello fortificato del X secolo sito su di un'altura, affacciata sul lago Trasimeno, nei pressi di Panicale in provincia di Perugia.

Il toponimo Montalera è fatto risalire dagli eruditi sette - ottocenteschi ad una accezione mitologica greca: il monte di Era, monte cioè dedicato, sin dall'epoca etrusca, ad Hera (Giunone), la sposa di Zeus (Giove) il re dell'Olimpo.

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The Guglielmi Castle, or Isabella Castle, is located in the southern part of the Isola Maggiore, one of the three islands in Trasimeno Lake in the province of Perugia, Umbria, Italy.

History
It was built as a summer residence, in 1887, by Senator Giacinto Guglielmi, Marquis of Vulci and Civitavecchia, in agreement with his wife Isabella, which was dedicated to the dwelling. In 1894 the Guglielmi organized a lavish inauguration: the building remained their property until 1975 and passed into new ownership in 1990. In 2010 the company which had purchased the complex and started the restoration declared bankruptcy. In 2014 the castle was offered at auction last time but this was not quorate. The asking price was 7.6 million.

Guglielmi castle

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Castle in Italy for holiday rental  – This picturesque fairytale castle dating back to the 14th century is exceptionally situated on a hilltop, commanding far reaching views over the Trasimeno Lake and the gently sloping Tuscan-Umbrian Appennines. Originally used as a military watch tower, it later became the lavish residence of the Borgia family who left their distinctive mark of elegance and opulence. The current owners have transformed this medieval building into a unique holiday destination in a magical setting with a wonderful new pool and private tennis court for guests to enjoy.
Thanks to its privileged hillside location and its original thick stone walls, Castello il Borgia is pleasantly cool during the summer months. Most rooms enjoy stunning views over Lake Trasimeno, Italy’s largest non-Alpine lake, which can be reached in a few minutes's drive to spend some time by the beach, with its cafes and interesting old fishing villages such as Tuoro or Passignano sul Trasimeno. A range of water sports are available by the lakeside and boat trips will take you to visit the charming Maggiore island, known for its lacemaking tradition.
All around your holiday castle you have plenty of opportunity for interesting excursions both in Umbria and Tuscany, whose border is located only a few miles away. Some of the most charming Umbrian towns such as Perugia, Assisi, Spello and Gubbio are all less than 1 hour from Castello Il Borgia whereas Cortona and Southern Tuscany can be reached in only 30 minutes. Spending your holiday at Castello il Borgia will give you the unique chance to experience the best of both worlds, in the very heart of Italy.

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This Exclusive period castle (once property of the notorious Borgia family) is set in a great location, right at the heart of Italy, but only about few miles to Lake Trasimeno where there are nicely-kept beaches with playgrounds for children. This lake is popular with families as the water is deceptively shallow and warms up nicely in summer. The lake towns of Tuoro and Passignano are charming and have all the local amenities and restaurants that you may want. You're spoilt for choice for places to visit, with Siena, Perugia, Assisi and Arezzo all within easy reach for a day trip. Guests staying at this castle can experience the beautiful Umbrian and Tuscan countryside at its best, with its charming medieval villages, vineyards and olive groves. For your shopping you have: The Mall Outlet, Dolce e Gabbana Outlet, Prada Outlet, Val di Chiana Outlet. Among the events you may wish to attend are: Umbria Jazz in Perugia in July, Palio di Siena in July and August, Eurochocolate in Perugia in October.
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Castello il Borgia 

Few properties provide such a complete vision of a country villa as Casa Rocca di Pierle near Cortona. This solid two-storey stone building, with its shuttered windows and pantiled roof, stands proud in the landscape, with astonishing views across the Val di Pierle. Its graceful iron gates open onto a vast garden that climbs the hill behind the villa, carpeted with lawn and surrounded by floral borders. At its centre lies a beautiful kidney-shaped private pool, crafted from local stone.

Yet, step inside this rambling villa and you will find it holds a secret. The space within has been divided neatly into three traditionally styled apartments, one on the ground floor and two on the first level, making it a great choice for a party of up to 10 family or friends to holiday together with a welcome degree of separation. There’s also a dining hall with its own kitchen – so if you like villa life to come with a few hotel-style benefits, forget cooking altogether and hire one of our recommended chefs.

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Rocca di Pierle

Castello di Reschio forms part of a chain of walled settlements in proximity of the Tuscan boundaries. It belonged to the county of Porta Sant’Angelo of the commune of Perugia, perched on a hillock above the valley of Pierle, along the right riverbank of the Niccone stream. Today it is part of the communal territory of Lisciano Niccone, province of Perugia.
Origins of Castle till mid-14th century
The name Reschio, derived from Resculum, suggests a fortification at the site dates to the late Roman Empire. The present structure was likely begun at some time between the 9th and 11th centuries. Historians from the 17th and 18th centuries (Muratori and Gamurrini respectively) refer to land grants by Charlemagne and other emperors wrote prior to the 11th centuries. These certificates, emitted for the Bourbon of Monte Santa Maria family(originally the Lords of Colle), possibly represent the first records referring to the Castle of Reschio. However, no such documentary evidence is still extant.

The first documentation of the castle is from 3rd of May, 1202, when Uguccione di Ranieri of the Vagliana branch of the Family of the Marchesi del Monte S. Maria, marchese di Colle e di Vagliana, submitted to the town of Perugia this castle and its properties along with those of Monte Gualandro, Castel Nuovo, Santa Maria di Pierle, Lisciano, and Tisciano. A treatise for protection was signed with the consuls of Perugia. The historian Litta, understands this to mean Uguccione was in possession of those sites by a grant from Federico Barbarossa, and, as the imperial power diminished, the obligation arose to keep them by vassalage treatise.

Reschio, Imperial Feud
The Emperor Charles IV, by a certificate of May 14, 1355, invests Ugolino and his nephews Angelo, Guiduccio and Pietro Marchesi del Monte Santa Maria, with the castles of Marzana, Lippiano and Reschio, confirming their privileges (Mariotti 1835). Ugolino requested this deed from the Emperor, by which all Feuds are freed from protection bonds, of which investiture was given or confirmed (amongst which the curia of Reschio is expressly mentioned). The family of the Marchesi del Monte S. Maria therefore depends directly from the Sacred Roman Empire, thus freed from the Umbrian towns, where the various factions were always in conflict with each other. The marquisate hereby became an imperial “sovereign” feud.Ranieri di Ugolino was the only member of the Bourbon del Monte family who, after the investiture by Charles IV, did not have the title of marquis of Monte S. Maria, but was the first one to take on the title marquis of Reschio, most probably his place of residence.

The Montemelini Family of Perugia
In 1364 the castle of Reschio still belonged to the Marquis of Monte S. Maria (Ranieri, the son of Ugolino di Berarda, used the title of Marquis of Reschio, likewise his son Antonio). The handing over to the Montemelini family took place in 1365 when Antonia (Ranieri’s granddaughter) inherits a part of the marquisate of Reschio (including the Castle). Antonia was married to Ranieri di Tiberio Montemelini di Perugia, but had to defend the Castle from the pitfalls of her relatives (amongst which the toughest one her cousin Cerbone, who had many relatives killed in order to be sole proprietor of the marquisate). In 1593 Montemelini Lord of Reschio put his feud under the protection of the Grand Duke of Tuscany and was condemned by the Pope for having placed the coat of arms of the Medici on the gateway of the Castle.

The bishop of Todi, Angiolo Cesi
In 1601 Count Niccolò, son of Napoleone Montemelini, sold this feud, through the Congregation of the Barons, to Mons. Angelo Cesi, bishop of Todi, who made a present of this to his nephew Venanzio Chiappino (as can be read in the inscription placed above the entrance to the Castle). The Notary Francesco Torelli drew up the sales deed in Perugia.

Prospero Cimarra
On December 5, 1678 the County of Reschio was purchased by the Duke of Acquasparta for the sum of 25000 scudi. Cimarra, contractor of the Gabella del Macinato (grain and flour taxes) of the Towns, Countryside and Castles of the District of Rome, was indebted with the Apostolic Chamber by the sum of approximately 30000 scutes and therefore forced to sell the propriety of Reschio.

The noble family Bichi Ruspoli Forteguerri di Siena
On May 27, 1692 Cardinal Carlo Bichi (May 6, 1638 – November 7, 1718; nominated cardinal by Alexander VIII in 1690), offered to purchase the County of Reschio for the sum of 23000 scutes on behalf of his nephew Marquis Galgano Bichi, of the noble family Bichi of Siena. The notary Francesco Antamoro drew up the sales deed, confirmed by Pope Innocenzo XII on October 11, on October 20, 1692.

This important family from Siena contributed decisively to the development of the community of Reschio, right up to the 1920s, when the inauguration of the first (and only) elementary school of Reschio took place, thanks to the determination of the teacher Nazareno Carnevali.

The Castle in the Twentieth Century
In 1932, after 240 years, the marquis Ridolfo Bichi Ruspoli Forteguerri sold the estate of Reschio, including a number of farmhouses still part of the propriety to this day, to Professor Angiolo Maria Cenciarini. The sale took place “per aversionem” or, as one would say today, “with closed gates” meaning including all the contents of the Castle, of the houses and farms on the estate. In the deed, drawn up by the notary Zati of Florence, one can read that the entire sum paid for the purchase corresponded to a total price of 800,000 lire. Under the Cenciarini, the property was dedicated to cultivation and processing of tobacco.


In 1970s, the property belonged to the counts of Bosca di Roveto, who renovated the castle.


In 1994, the Bolza Family (aristocratic Austro-Hungarian family of Italian origins) purchased the estate. The present owners have started a process of requalification of the entire real estate heritage, and recovery of the Castle.

Castello di Reschio

Il castello di Sorbello è situato su un'altura davanti a Reschio, nel comune di Cortona, ma non lontano da Umbertide, al confine un tempo tra il granducato di Toscana e lo Stato Pontificio. Dalla rocca prese titolo un ramo della dinastia dei Bourbon del Monte Santa Maria e fu, dal 1416 al 1815, sede dell'omonimo piccolo marchesato, feudo imperiale mediato che comprendeva anche Pereto e la val di Pierle.
Storia
È costituito da un massiccio palazzo a planimetria rettangolare con torre merlata ghibellina e rivellino, inserito in un basamento trapezoidale con forti rastremature ed accenno a bastionatura, cordolato e con guardiole ai vertici. Il maniero domina tuttora l'alto corso del Tevere ed è sempre la residenza dei marchesi Ranieri Bourbon del Monte. Alle pendici del colle, raggiunto da due sentieri, si trova il borgo agricolo di Sant'Andrea, intorno a un piazzale, con antiche costruzioni e la chiesa, il cui arciprete un tempo era nominato dai signori di Sorbello.

I marchesi, dopo che i Bourbon di Sorbello si estinsero nei Ranieri tramite il matrimonio di Giovanni Antonio con Altavilla, pronipote dell'ultimo feudatario reggente Lodovico IV (1805-1815), utilizzavano la rocca come residenza estiva, unitamente alla villa del Pischiello sulle colline del lago Trasimeno, ma soggiornavano a lungo anche nel palazzo di Perugia e nel castello di Civitella Ranieri, nei dintorni di Umbertide.

L'edificio non dispone di muri di cinta, ma di due maestosi ingressi, uno orientato a est, l'altro a ovest, collegati attraverso un'ampia corte. In mezzo a questa si erge uno scalone, illuminato da un secondo cortile, che sovrasta i locali un tempo adibiti a carcere feudale: a sud-est la fortezza è rivolta verso il sottostante castello di Reschio. La struttura è stata realizzata alle falde di un abbassamento del monte Montaccio e il primo cantiere fu installato nei primi anni dell'XI secolo, secondo quanto risulta dalla prima documentazione concernente la stipulazione di un contratto tra i marchesi e il governo di Città di Castello, avente per oggetto l'alienazione di alcuni immobili. I signori, prima della costruzione della rocca, abitavano in cima al monte e si possono ancora vedere i resti della dimora.

Il feudo dei Bourbon di Sorbello era denominato imperiale, perché concesso, nel 1416, dall'imperatore Sigismondo di Lussemburgo (1410-1437) a Lodovico I (1416-1441), appartenente a una linea collaterale dei Bourbon del Monte, marchesi del Monte Santa Maria: la sovranità su questo piccolo ma strategico territorio - 4 km² e 500 abitanti - durò fino al Congresso di Vienna. I feudatari rogavano atti pubblici, riconosciuti dagli altri governi, e amministravano la giustizia civile e penale in una sala del castello. Il marchesato dipendeva dal Sacro Romano Impero, ma, per motivi di tutela e difesa in caso di guerra, aveva sottoscritto un atto di accomandigia con il granducato di Toscana: il 24 giugno di ogni anno i Sorbello partecipavano, a Firenze, al corteo di San Giovanni Battista per l'omaggio feudale ed erano i primi nella gerarchia dei nobili titolari.

Il maniero, delimitato da un ampio giardino, risulta essere l'unico dell'odierno comune cortonese ad essere intatto e abitabile, dopo alcuni restauri che, non essendo più attuale la destinazione militare, lo convertirono in residenza signorile. Intorno ad esso si notano i ruderi di antiche fortificazioni, ma la facciata, il retro e la torre con i merli a coda di rondine sono inalterati. L'androne, la scalea, il corpo di guardia, le prigioni sono tutti particolari dal volto poliedrico che ricordano i tempi feudali. Nel piano terra la cappella di Sant'Andrea custodisce una pala d'altare dedicata all'apostolo e un graffito raffigurante la Madonna, patrona di tutti i rami dei Bourbon del Monte Santa Maria.

L'interno del monumentale edificio è stato quasi totalmente rimaneggiato nel Seicento secondo il gusto barocco, prevalente nel periodo. È caratterizzato da 365 stanze, secondo la composizione dell'anno solare: interessanti, anche per l'arredamento e le opere d'arte conservate, il piano nobile, la sala del marchese, del trono, dei busti (rappresentanti molti componenti della prolifica dinastia).

Lo stesso marchese Uguccione Ranieri parla, inoltre, dell'inquietante presenza soprannaturale di un fantasma che si manifesterebbe ogni 19 luglio, riferibile a Battistello di Sorbello, figlio legittimato di Guidone I e della favorita Rosa di Bagnolo, fatto decapitare nella sala di giustizia del castello, appunto in quel giorno del 1558, per volere dello zio Lodovico II per timore che ostacolasse la successione del proprio erede Tancredi II. Lo spettro, come in un rito, pare compia la sua annuale comparsa nella sala del trono con la testa male attaccata quasi ad angolo retto, percorra la sala dei busti e, attraverso scale non più esistenti, si soffermi nel luogo dove morì.

Castello di Sorbello

Castello di Monterone, known also as Castello Piceller, is a small restored 13th-century castle in Perugia, Italy. It is located in the road that connects Perugia to Assisi, through Ponte San Giovanni. Very close to the Monastery of San Pietro and to the Church of San Bevignate, this street is one of the "royal roads", that led out of the town through the main gates of Perugia, along a road network already used by the Etruscans and Romans.
Origins of the name and first settlements
The area's name is thought to derive from Monturreno or Mons Turrenius, that derives from Turrena, the medieval name given to Perugia, due to the presence of numerous defensive towers.

The area was first settle around the 3rd century BC; a travertine ossuary was found in the garden of the castle together with three bronze mirror discovered by Mauro Faina: one of those represent the mythological figures of Peleus and Thetys.

The main block of the castle dates to the 13th century. In the Perugia’s archives there is a document dated 18 January 1200 certifies that Gerardo di Ugolino di Alberico, making himself an official citizen of Perugia, submitted his properties in the hill of "Montarone" to the consul Bernarduccio. Father Felice Ciatti in "Memorie Annali et Historiche delle cose di Perugia" (1638), writes: Gerardo di Ghislerio di Alberico, on 14 January, wanting to be a Perugia citizen, submitted the land he had near the hill Montirreno - called Montarone, and every thing he had in the area of Perugia, swearing he would like to stay under the Perugia jurisdiction and whole its rules…

Templars knights and Monterone castle
Until their abolition in 1312, the Templar Knights were linked to the castle. The Templars owned the Monastery of San Bevignate. The rumors and the proximity of the church to the castle make us think that catholic pilgrims received hospitality in that building, being itself submitted to the Order.

Lupattelli wrote in 1899: "Being Templars Knights in San Bevignate from 1200 until 1312, we can assume that the land submitted by Gerardo di Ghislerio to Perugia would include his main house, the castle, where he hosted the lay pilgrims, as they had found in it a monastic institution. So, the ancient building depended by the temple of S.Bevignate and by the Monastery where it was settled the fourth Order of Priests". According to the tradition, there should be underground passages that connect Castello di Monterone to the Church of San Bevignate. After 1312, the Castello di Monterone was probably abandoned for a long time.

Castello di Monterone in modern history
Piceller family, who has origins in S. Ulrico, Val Gardena (now it is Ortisei), moved to Perugia at the end of 1600; here, they acquired lands and properties and established Castello di Monterone as the family residence. Many were the members of the family who had artistic or social merit, like Giuseppe, friend of Francesco Morlacchi, an important flautist and founder of the first music band in Perugia, Bernardino Piceller, painter and drawer of many historic and religious subjects. At the beginnings of 1800, Piceller family was enriched by the trade of ironware with Epiteto di Cristoforo. The son of Epiteto, Alessandro, is a very important character in the history of Castello di Monterone. Archaeologist for pleasure and antiquarian, Alessandro restored and extended the castle in the same way he did with the "Casetta Piceller", a 14th-century chapel situated in Collestrada, restored and re-adapted into a little country-house.
Restoration works were directed by Filippo Lardoni and Alessandro Arienti. On 23 November 1849, the bishop Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci (he will become Pope Leone XIII) inaugurated the castle. Alessandro Piceller did not only restored the ancient medieval building but he enriched it with many artistic and architectural elements (bas-reliefs, statues, a little rose, balconies, mullioned windows and so many other objects from different historic periods. The cloister, delimited by columns and marble capitals (these were collected by the same Alessandro Piceller) was decorated by urns, etruscan bas-reliefs of great historic importance. Castello di Monterone is something unique just because of this mix of styles, romantic elements and materials (sandstone, brick, stone) and it is different form the other XIX examples of Umbria. Among the main pieces of art inside the castle, we must mention the frescoes representing the signs of the main characters of the late middle age fights for the power, painted by Matteo Tassi, who realised also the Sala dei Notari inside the Palazzo dei Priori; the fresco representing The Madonna of Loreto with Saints Peter and Paul, is attributed to Jacopo da Foligno. On 20 October 1929, Alessandro Piceller died and after his death and the castle was abandoned again. During World War II it hosted displaced people and the bombs heavily ruined the building. The Castle was restored after the war.



Monterone Castle

It is a castle on the slopes of Monte Tezio at 580 meters altitude and, as other castles in Umbria, it begins as rural open village (without enclosure). It was fortified later on with thick walls and supporting towers in order to defend the crops, the cattle and the inhabitants of the area.

During the XV Century it was named as castrum. Historical sources show that the building of the small fortress started in 1455 and that further works were made thanks to fundings from Perugia Municipality between 1473 and 1481. Anyhow the Castle was still unfinished.

Recently, after years of complete abandonment, restoration works started during the ‘80s of the XX Century. The first arch of the portico on the left was added, but the different construction phases are still easy to be seen.

The original core is at the north east corner, initially a fortified house, probably, to which later on the three annexes and the two angular towers were added. The original entrance was the one on the east side, whose door was surmounted by some brackets supporting the defence apparatus. The present door, on the west side, as well as the portico and the above loggia, was built afterwards; same time for the external windows made through a cut of the walls.

Recently the structure has been recovered and organized partly as accommodation facility, partly as private residence.

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