CASTEL DELL'AQUILA, Castle of Eagles:

 the mystery of the knight and family crimes

From the 'top of a hill, the silhouette of the castle overlooking the valley rules the area just like the nest of a bird of prey. The Bulding seems to gain control on those who want to visit this place also through the difficult narrow street that you need to travel to get there. A street that opens like a wound in the dense forests that change color with the seasons.  

A place, this, forgotten and rediscovered! Only recently it became free of the  excruciating embrace of 'ivy and brambles that suffocated it.

It is now fully restored, high , beautiful and powerful. Today, the castle again raises its ramparts towards the sky, thanks to the work of the castle keeper ,who brought it back to the original value.  

Among these ancient walls, under the impressive vaulted ceilings, the Marquis Leonardo and Galeotto plotted to kill their cousins ​​in order to take possession of their land, but this is not the only criminal act of which the castle has been a witness. 









Deep under the ground, another body was hidden, and found after seven centuries of sleep, a knight, betrayed and killed by an arrow ...

Suitable visit to anyone who wants to imagine how a dark and mysterious medieval castle,difficult to reach could really be.
Castel dell'Aquila really has that incredible atmosphere that we could meet in adventure  stories, where the castles were, on stormy nights, a place of fortune for wandering travelers who could find themselves to be guests or prisoners according to the clemency of the mysterious master. 

The castle offers tourists these kind of feelings and all of this happens surrounded by the spectacular "wolves" forests  of Lunigiana.
Follow your guide on this journey into the past. 










Castle Site :  http://www.castellodellaquila.it/castelloaquila/