Castello di Belcaro
castle, chateau
381m
Provincia di Siena, Toscana

his castle built in 1190 was destroyed by wars and rebuilt several times before being given in 1376 to Santa Caterina di Siena, which made it into a convent

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Previous names
Castello di Belcaro, Castello di Belcaro
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Description

his castle built in 1190 was destroyed by wars and rebuilt several times before being given in 1376 to Santa Caterina di Siena, which made it into a convent. He returned to the public domain and was restored in 1408. The banker Crescenzio Turamini who bought it in 1525, had it restored by Baldassarre Peruzzi, who gave it the current form. After 1555, it belonged for a moment to Cosimo I of Medicis. In 1802, new restoration, in the neoclassical style, of the facade of the villa, by Serafino Belli. Today, the buildings, a garden and two courtyards are surrounded by a wall. You enter a triangular courtyard which includes buildings for the service staff, then you reach a second courtyard paved with bricks, with the neoclassical style villa and the house of the guard opposite. The garden is accessed by two doors next to a well. This garden contains a chapel whose exterior is simple but nicely decorated inside. Near the chapel, a beautiful loggia nowadays has beautiful frescoes. You can go round the walls by a circular path, from which you can enjoy beautiful views. In the villa, you have to visit the pretty fresco by Baldassarre Peruzzi: the "Judgment of Paris".

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