Italy · Restored
Castello della Manta
Castello della Manta is a medieval castle near Saluzzo in Piedmont, Italy, later transformed into a noble residence by the Saluzzo della Manta family. The interior includes the early-15th-century Baronial Hall with a celebrated fresco cycle and a later Mannerist Sala delle Grottesche; the complex also includes a church with an apsidal fresco cycle.
First raised
1420
Its prime
1560
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1560
The shape it held in its prime.
Low, rectangular stone residence of pale, roughly coursed masonry with a broad two-storey façade pierced by three tall rectangular windows and a small balustraded balcony; a central arched ground-floor doorway is partly enveloped by dense climbing ivy. Red terracotta hip roofs step up behind the façade and reveal a cylindrical stone tower rising above the roofs, its upper stage pierced by paired arched openings and a decorative zigzag masonry band. The building faces a gravel forecourt sheltered by large evergreen trees.
Its story
The story of Castello della Manta.
The original building at Manta, near Saluzzo in Piedmont, dates from the 12th century; it was later enlarged and transformed into a noble residence by the Saluzzo della Manta family, margraves of Saluzzo.
Its Baronial Hall holds a rare masterpiece of Late Gothic painting in northern Italy: a fresco cycle completed soon after 1420, attributed to the anonymous Master of Castello della Manta, portraying the Nine Worthies and their Nine Female Heroines in precious contemporary dress — the artist may have modelled the figures on members of the house of the margraves of Saluzzo. Alongside them is the Fountain of Youth, a scene inspired by Le Chevalier Errant, the poem of Marquess Thomas III of Saluzzo.
Around 1560 Count Michele Antonio della Manta commissioned the Sala delle Grottesche, decorated in the Mannerist style with a finely painted ceiling of stuccoes, grotesques and ancient ruins. Annexed to the castle is a church whose apse carries frescoes on the life of Christ from the same period as the Baronial Hall.
Step inside
5 places to explore in 1560.
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Clans who held Castello della Manta.
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Saluzzo della Manta
Enlarged and transformed into a noble residence by the Saluzzo della Manta family, margraves of Saluzzo, from the medieval period into the 16th century.
