Castello di Écours
| Castello di Écours | ||
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 Castello di Écours |
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| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | La Salle | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 44 '48.7 " N , 7 ° 4' 46.8" E | |
| Height: | 1096 m | |
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The Castello di Écours , also known as Torre di Lescours or Torre di Les Cours , is the ruin of a medieval castle in the Écours district of the village of La Salle in the Aosta Valley .
history
The Lescours family (or De Curiis or Les Cours ), an aristocratic clan of notarial origin, had the castle built in the 12th century. As early as 1430 she gave part of her own possessions, including the castle, to the Châtelard family .
It is said that Pierre de Tartentaise , descendant of the noble Les Cours family and later Pope Innocent V , was born here in 1224 , but some scholars, including Pietro Amato Frutaz , contradict this assumption. In 1551 the castle was sold to the Bozel family and in the same century it fell to the Gal and Malliet families in common rule. In the 17th century, the entire property fell to the Passerin family , who stayed there until 1730.
description
Of the original structure from the Lescours era , only the main tower with a square floor plan and a short piece of the old surrounding wall of the complex are preserved today. The colloquial name "Torre di Lescours" goes back to the fact that the obvious part is still the old tower from the Middle Ages. The district of the same name, in which the tower is located, is 1090 meters above sea level.
In the 17th century, at the time of the historian Jean-Baptiste de Tillier , the castle was partially in ruins. De Tillier suspected that the castle, like other mansions in the Aosta Valley, was destroyed as a punishment for the wrongdoing of its owners.
"(...) the tower, which is now called the" Tour des Coursi ", on the main street in front of the entrance to La Salle, half of which is still standing (...)"
Until a few years ago, some frescoes were still preserved in what was probably the castle's chapel .
According to Mauro Cortellazzo , who takes over this from Lange , the Torre di Lescours shows some important constructive analogies with other towers from the Aosta Valley that were built flat, such as a wall thickness of 2 meters:
“(...) the Torre Malluquin in Courmayeur , the Tour de l'Archet in Morgex , the Torre di Lecours in La Salle, the Torre de la Plantaz and the Torre di Sant'Anselmo in Gressan , the recently covered tower of the Castello di Fénis , the Torre di Néran in Châtillon , the Torre di Ville in Arnad and two more towers in the side valleys, the Torre di Vachéry in Étroubles and the Torre di Hérères in Perloz . All these towers were erected in areas that do not show any element of landscape that would facilitate defense; in fact, the choice of flat sites, which are open and not always close to roads, seems clear. All 10 towers are therefore characterized by the particular choice of their location. "
The walls, which are 2 meters thick at the base, taper to a thickness of 0.8 meters towards the roof. The tower, which is completely empty inside, is covered with stone shingles.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Beato Innocenzo V Papa . Comune di La Salle. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
- ↑ The Casaforte Bozel is named after the Bozel family.
- ↑ a b Insegnanti e alunni delle scuole materne e primarie di La Salle: Le hameau d'Écours et sa chapelle in 51 ° Concours Cerlogne . La Salle, May 2013. p. 19.
- ^ Jean-Baptiste de Tillier: Historique de la Vallée d'Aoste . L. Mensio. P. 193 (25). 1887 (1737). Retrieved May 15, 2020.
- ↑ Mauro Cortellazzo: Simbologia del potere e possesso del territorio: le torri valdo stane tra XI e XIII secolo . In: Bulletin d'études préhistoriques et archeologiques alpines, Numéro spécial consacré aux Actes du XIIe Colloquesur les Alpes dans l'Antiquité. Yenne / Savoie 2-4 octobre 2009 (par les soins de Damien Daudry) . Pp. 223-225. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
swell
- Mauro Cortellazzo: Simbologia del potere e possesso del territorio: le torri valdostane tra XI e XIII secolo . In: Bulletin d'études préhistoriques et archeologiques alpines, Numéro spécial consacré aux Actes du XIIe Colloquesur les Alpes dans l'Antiquité. Yenne / Savoie 2-4 octobre 2009 (par les soins de Damien Daudry) . Pp. 223-225. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
- André Zanotto: Castelli valdostani . Musumeci, Quart 2002 (1980). ISBN 88-7032-049-9 . P. 110.
Web links
- Castello di Ecours . Turismo della Regione Valle d'Aosta. September 21, 2011. Accessed May 15, 2020.