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Località: Largo Castello, 1 - Policoro - Matera
Phone number: 335 286752

Baronial Castle

The castle of Policoro is also called Baron Berlingieri’s, in memory of the last noble family that owned it. Dating back to the eighth century, the castle overlooks the picturesque Ionian coast. On the eastern tip of the ancient Greek colonies of Siris and Herakleia, it is thought that the castle was erected by Basilian monks as a monastery and agricultural center and then became, around 1791, a noble farmhouse owned by Princess Grimaldi Serra Gerace. In 1893, the castle became the property of Baron Berlingieri of Crotone. The main facade of the palace still has inscriptions placed on the lintels of the windows on the ground floor, which are important for the historical reconstruction of the building; the 18th-century portal surmounted by the coat of arms of the Berlingieri family introduces into a rectangular interior courtyard from which one enters the service rooms on the ground floor, the basement and the monumental staircase leading to the upper floors.

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