Castello di Pilato
| Castello di Pilato | ||
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 Castello di Pilato in a photo by Carlo Nigra |
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| Alternative name (s): | Château de Pilate | |
| Creation time : | 12-14 century | |
| Castle type : | Fixed house | |
| Conservation status: | restored | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Nut | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 44 '25.1 " N , 7 ° 28' 4.9" E | |
| Height: | 540 m slm | |
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The Castello di Pilato ( French Château de Pilotate ) is a permanent house on the Via Francigena in the settlement of Nus in the Aosta Valley . The lords of Nus had the rectangular building built during the feudal period .
description
Of the four-story building, only the two protruding corner towers and three of the thick surrounding walls made of bare stone have survived.
The southern wall on which the entrance gate was located is missing; it was demolished in the late 19th or early 20th century to widen the street and with it the towers that defended the entrance at the corners were also lost. The wall was later reconstructed, but destroyed again in a car accident in the 1960s. There are sporadic decorative embellishments, such as the worked mullion of a cross window on the west wall, probably from a later era.
The restoration carried out in recent years, with a view to preserving the complex, has led to the redesign of some architectural elements that had been lost, such as the roof covering with glass and steel or the steel staircase clad in wood on the south side of the building, where there used to be the surrounding wall that is missing today was raised. The freely accessible staircase leads to the battlements and the two cylindrical watchtowers, which are well preserved. Inside there are numerous information boards about the village and the beauties of the area. The place where there was a wide chimney is still visible on the wall.
history
The date of construction is not certain: according to some sources, the building dates from the 14th century, while according to others it dates back to the 12th-13th centuries. It must be dated to the 16th century or even to the mid-12th century.
One of the first written documents about the Castello di Pilato is found in the tribute given to Alexandre and Jean de Nus in 1337 :
"Confessi fuerunt (...) tenere ad feudom (...) Domun merlatam sitam in burgo de Nus in introitu villae veniendo de Augusta." (German: It is allowed to receive (...) as a fiefdom (. ..) the crenellated house in the Nus settlement at its entrance, which comes from Augusta (Aosta))
The permanent house was abandoned when it was destroyed by fire in the late 16th century; The Lords of Nus then moved to the Castello di Nus on the ledge above the Saint-Barthélemy valley . The documents about the Lords of Nus, which had been kept in the permanent house, were irretrievably destroyed.
The permanent house was gradually restored and today it is open to the public.
Gallery images
Castello di Pilato 1869.
The permanent house in 1924, when there was still the entrance gate in the facade, which no longer exists today.
Floor plan of the permanent house in 1936.
Today's south facade
Legend
The name of the permanent house comes from a legend according to which the Roman procurator Pontius Pilatus stayed here on his way to Vienne in Gaul , where Emperor Caligula had banished him. In fact, there was only one Roman mansio in the settlement at the time , but the imaginative support of the legend came in 1846 when some ancient coins and medals were found among the ruins of the Castello di Pilato, as Édouard Aubert reported. In fact, the discovery of the coins led to a modification of an earlier legend: Pilate's passage through Nus was mentioned in another historical work as early as the 17th century, in which, curiously, it is said that Pilate tended to spend time on the ledge in the Castello di Nus should.
Individual references and comments
- ↑ a b c d Castello di Pilato . Inalto. Archived from the original on September 22, 2011. Retrieved on August 13, 2020.
- ^ Carlo Nigra: Torri e castelli e case forti del Piemonte dal 1000 al secolo XVI. La Valle d'Aosta . Musumeci, Quart 1974. p. 99.
- ^ Margherita Morra: Guida ai castelli della Val d'Aosta . Legenda, Novarra 2001. ISBN 88-509-0050-3 . P. 70.
- ↑ a b c Castello di Pilato . Comune di Nus. Archived from the original on April 7, 2012. Retrieved on August 13, 2020.
- ^ Castelli . Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
- ^ A b Arturo Graf: Miti, leggende e superstizioni del Medio Evo . Pearson Italia. Pp. 294-295. 2006. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
- ↑ On the finds see also the writings of Édouard Aubert and Carlo Promis, cited in
- ↑ La storia . Comune di Nus. Archived from the original on April 6, 2012. Retrieved on August 13, 2020.
- ↑ Ezio Emerico Gerbore: Nus. Tessere di storia . Musumeci, Quart 1998. pp. 11-12.
- ↑ The historical work from the 17th century is quoted by Gerbore, who refers to the "Pseudo Monterin", see
- ^ Jean-Baptiste de Tillier: Totius Vallis Auguste compendiaria descriptio in Archivum Augustanum . Volume IV. P. 261.
swell
- Edouard: La Vallée d'Aoste . Amyot libraire. Pp. 163-164. 1860.
- Carlo Nigra: Torri e castelli e case forti del Piemonte dal 1000 al secolo XVI. La Valle d'Aosta . Musumeci, Quart 1974. pp. 98-99.
- Arturo Graf: Miti, legend and superstizioni del Medio Evo . Pearson Italia. Pp. 294-295. 2006. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
- Margherita Morra: Guida ai castelli della Val d'Aosta . Legenda, Novarra 2001. ISBN 88-509-0050-3 .
- Ezio Emerico Gerbore: Nus. Tessere di storia . Musumeci, Quart 1998. pp. 38-43.
- Mauro Minola, Beppe Ronco: Valle d'Aosta. Castelli e fortificazioni . Macchione, Varese 2002. ISBN 88-8340-116-6 . P. 35.
- André Zanotto: Castelli valdostani . Musumeci, Quart (1980) 2002. ISBN 88-7032-049-9 .
Web links
- Castello di Pilato . Comune di Nus. Archived from the original on April 7, 2012. Retrieved on August 13, 2020.
- Castelli . Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta. Retrieved August 13, 2020. </