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Castello di Reschio
Castello di Reschio is a stone medieval hilltop castle in Umbria, Italy, set on a grassy rise and approached through wooded slopes. The building is dominated by long, high curtain walls punctuated by small rectangular windows and several tall, square towers, one with a visible brick upper stage.
Its prime
1400
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1400
What Castello di Reschio looked like in its prime.
Long, continuous pale limestone curtain walls rise directly from a grassy, terraced slope, punctuated by small rectangular window openings and narrow arrow slits. The plan reads as a compact rectangle with several tall, square masonry towers; the tallest tower has a later brick upper stage with vertical openings. Low-pitched red clay roof tiles sit behind the wallhead. The castle sits amid cypress and umbrella-pine trees on a gentle hillside with a low stone retaining wall at the foot.
Its story
The story of Castello di Reschio.
Reschio forms part of a chain of walled settlements near the Tuscan boundary, in the county of Porta Sant'Angelo of the commune of Perugia, perched on a hillock above the valley of Pierle by the Niccone stream. Its first documentation is a deed of 3 May 1202, and its early lords were the Marchesi del Monte Santa Maria, the Bourbon del Monte family, originally Lords of Colle, one of whom, Ranieri di Ugolino, was the first to take the title marquis of Reschio, most probably his place of residence.
In 1365 the castle passed to the Montemelini family of Perugia, when Ranieri's granddaughter Antonia inherited part of the marquisate. In 1593 the Montemelini Lord of Reschio put his feud under the protection of the Grand Duke of Tuscany and was condemned by the Pope for placing the Medici coat of arms on the castle gateway; in 1601 Count Niccolò, son of Napoleone Montemelini, sold the feud through the Congregation of the Barons to Angiolo Cesi, bishop of Todi, and in 1678 the County of Reschio was purchased by the Duke of Acquasparta for 25,000 scudi.
In 1932, after 240 years, the marquis Ridolfo Bichi Ruspoli Forteguerri sold the estate "with closed gates", all contents of castle, houses and farms included, for a total of 800,000 lire to Professor Angiolo Maria Cenciarini, under whom the property turned to tobacco cultivation. The counts of Bosca di Roveto, owners in the 1970s, renovated the castle, and since 1994 Count Benedikt Bolza has owned the estate, leading the recovery of the castle and its farmhouses.
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Clans who held Castello di Reschio.
The families that held Castello di Reschio for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Bourbon del Monte
Lords of Reschio as Marchesi del Monte Santa Maria from at least 1202 until 1365.
Montemelini
Held by the Montemelini family of Perugia from 1365 until the feud was sold in 1601.
Bichi Ruspoli Forteguerri
Held the Reschio estate for some 240 years until its sale in 1932.
Bosca di Roveto
Held by the counts of Bosca di Roveto in the 1970s and 1980s; they renovated the castle.
Bolza
Purchased by Count Benedikt Bolza in 1994; still the family's estate.
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