Castello di Avise

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Castello di Avise
South facade of the Castello di Avise

South facade of the Castello di Avise

Creation time : 1492
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: restored
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Advices
Geographical location 45 ° 42 '31.9 "  N , 7 ° 8' 24.2"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 42 '31.9 "  N , 7 ° 8' 24.2"  E
Height: 787  m slm
Castello di Avise (Aosta Valley)
Castello di Avise

The Castello di Avise is a massive castle at the entrance to the Italian municipality of Avise in the Aosta Valley . It is often confused with the Castello di Blonay in the center of the village, near the church. The latter was the D'Avise family's first home . The nobles later moved to the Castello di Avise, which still bears their name today.

history

Boniface d'Avise or Rudolphe d'Avise had the castle built in 1492, which was then in the hands of the family for a long time. After the D'Avises died out, it fell to the Biancos from San Secondo , who sold them in 1798.

Today there are exhibitions in the castle.

description

The castle is well preserved. It is more of a permanent house than a castle. Attached to it is a tower with a square floor plan, slightly higher than the rest of the building, on the top of which there are elegant machicolations , which are decorated with Gothic motifs called "Goccia rovesciata" (German: reverse drop).

Floor plan of the castle (Carlo Nigra, July 1936)

The facade shows double windows from the 16th century of remarkable effect, often made with old stone inserts that form the frame. As the geologist Francesco Prinetti points out, the masonry shows examples of three basic stone families found in the area: oceanic marble alternates with gneiss , which comes from the continental stock, and amphibolite , which comes from deep, igneous inclusions from bygone eras originates. The decorative elements, from stone blocks on the doors and windows to the keel arches , are made of marble and slate (Kalkler).

The carved family coat of arms and the motto "Qui tost Avise tard se repent" are located above the entrance door to the tower.

Throughout the castle you can clearly see the various construction phases and the changes that have been carried out over the centuries: some corridors have been bricked up, while windows have been built in again to allow more light to enter the rooms in line with the changed use as an aristocratic palace allow.

  • The castle in a photo by Carlo Nigra.

  • Detail picture of a window

  • The west facade of the castle at the entrance to the village

  • Detail picture of a date inscription above the door

inside rooms

On the ground floor is the kitchen, which housed a tin collection that one of the last members of the D'Avise family put together and that no longer exists today.

The kitchen or the “tin room”. The pewter collection can still be seen in the photo from 1936.

On the first floor there is the “Stanza della cassaforte” (dt .: safe room), in which the everyday life of the upper middle class in the second half of the 19th century is depicted, and the “Sala delle mensole” (dt .: shelf space), which is so called because it houses 14 carved wooden shelves, the figures in costumes from the 15th century, animals or mythological monsters with a clear reference - in the restoration in the 19th century - to taste in a medieval castle in the Aosta Valley.

Inside there is also a large hall with a coffered ceiling .

In the castle there are some pieces of frescoes and decorations overlaid with graffiti from different periods (although not of the same interest as the one in the Castello di Issogne ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g advices. XXV concours Cerlogne 1987 . Imprimerie Duc, Aosta 1987. p. 43: Les Châteaux d'Avise .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Castello di Blonay e di Avise . Comune di Avise. Archived from the original on June 27, 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
  3. ↑ André Zanotto: Castelli valdostani . Musumeci, Quart (AO) 1980 (2002). ISBN 88-7032-049-9 . P. 63.
  4. ↑ Château d'Avise . Regione Valle d'Aosta. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
  5. ^ Francesco Prinetti: Andar per sassi. Le rocce alpine fra natura e cultura. Valle d'Aosta, Canavese, Valsesia . Musumeci, Quart (AO) 2010. ISBN 978-88-7032-857-8 . Pp. 161-162.
  6. ^ Francesco Prinetti: Andar per sassi. Le rocce alpine fra natura e cultura. Valle d'Aosta, Canavese, Valsesia . Musumeci, Quart (AO) 2010. ISBN 978-88-7032-857-8 . P. 161.

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  • Advices. XXV concours Cerlogne 1987 . Imprimerie Duc, Aosta 1987. Chapter: Les Châteaux d'Avise .
  • André Zanotto: Castelli valdostani . Musumeci, Quart (AO) 1980 (2002). ISBN 88-7032-049-9 .
  • Mauro Minola, Beppe Ronco: Valle d'Aosta. Castelli e fortificazioni . Macchione, Varese 2002. ISBN = 88-8340-116-6. P. 55.
  • Francesco Prinetti: Andar per sassi. Le rocce alpine fra natura e cultura. Valle d'Aosta, Canavese, Valsesia . Musumeci, Quart (AO) 2010. ISBN 978-88-7032-857-8 .
  • Carlo Nigra: Torri e castelli e case forti del Piemonte dal 1000 al secolo XVI. La Valle d'Aosta . Musumeci, Quart (AO) 1974. pp. 89-90.

Web links

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