{"id":310473,"date":"2024-08-09T22:09:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T20:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/what-to-see\/saluzzo-castile-2\/"},"modified":"2024-09-15T23:54:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T21:54:05","slug":"saluzzo-castile","status":"publish","type":"what-to-see","link":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/what-to-see\/saluzzo-castile\/","title":{"rendered":"Castile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The construction of the Saluzzo castle can be dated to between 1270 and 1286 on the basis of previous fortifications. The name &#8220;Castiglia&#8221; derives from the Latin plural &#8220;castella&#8221; (the castles). <br \/>The Marquis Ludovico II (1475-1504) wanted to transform the fortress into a noble residence on the occasion of his marriage to Margherita di Foix in 1492. The massive circular tower dates back to that period and a series of monochromatic frescoes, today partially visible on the access staircase to the exhibition floors.<br \/>The French occupation of the Marquisate (1549-1588) and the subsequent annexation to the Duchy of Savoy led to its decline and in 1825 work began to transform the building into a prison, a function it maintained until 1992, the main body was rebuilt with the consequent destruction of the fifteenth-century decorations.<br \/>Today Castile is home to the <strong>Museum of Chivalry<\/strong> and the <strong>Museum of Prison Memory<\/strong>, which commemorates the two main functions carried out by the building. Furthermore, the IGAV Permanent Exhibition &#8211; Istituto Garuzzo for the Visual Arts (ground floor) and the Historical Archive (second floor) are located in the nineteenth-century sleeve. The jail city walls, still intact, allow the visitor to follow a path that allows one to perceive the Castile in all its grandeur.<\/p>\n<p>castiglia@comune.saluzzo.cn.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Castile was the privileged and fortified residence of the Marquis of Saluzzo, which became a prison until 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":237441,"template":"","village-conntection":[51023],"what-to-see-region-and-provinces":[76185,76181],"what-to-see-category":[101776],"class_list":["post-310473","what-to-see","type-what-to-see","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","village-conntection-saluzzo-it","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-cuneo-en","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-piedmont","what-to-see-category-castle-rocca-fortress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/what-to-see"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=310473"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-region-and-provinces","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-region-and-provinces?post=310473"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-category?post=310473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}