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Castello di Panzano

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Last updated on October 16, 2026

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Checked against Wikipedia — The castle is the highest and oldest part of Panzano; a good part of the walls that girded the hill is still conserved, though on two sides they have been reduced in height while on the south-east side they are missing altogether. Corner towers also survive, one of which has been reused as the bell tower of the church of Santa Maria while another still keeps its apparato a sporgere. The internal structure is simple: from the single access gate, which may originally have had an antiporta, a single street leads to a small piazzetta onto which the cassero faces, the cassero being a tall tower rising higher than all the other buildings; beside the access gate is a building of obviously medieval character. For the accuracy of the wall facing and the form of the archivolts, all the buildings of the castle date its structures to the twelfth century., Outside the castle, along the access road that follows the ridge of the hill, the presence of a borgo is attested already in the twelfth century, in a document of 1146 as burgus de castro de Panzano; the borgo and the castle together form what is now called Panzano Alto. The borgo is articulated on two streets which, starting from a piazzetta, climb parallel to the castle, and among its buildings some show characteristics referable to the seventeenth or eighteenth century even though medieval structures appear from under some of the falling plaster., A little outside the castle of Panzano stood the ancient church dedicated to Santa Maria, which at the end of the nineteenth century was replaced by the present one. (October 2026).

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