Lagnasco

Lagnasco
Country	Italy
region	Piedmont
province	Cuneo  (CN)
Coordinates	44 ° 38 '  N , 7 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 38 '0 "  N , 7 ° 33' 0"  E
height	353  m slm
surface	17 km²
Residents	1,428 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	84 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	12030
prefix	0175
ISTAT number	004104
Website	Lagnasco

Castello Tapparelli, 16th century courtyard

Lagnasco ( Piedmontese Lanasch ) is a municipality with 1428 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Italian province of Cuneo (CN), Piedmont region, southeast of Savigliano .

The neighboring municipalities are Manta , Saluzzo , Savigliano , Scarnafigi and Verzuolo .

The municipality covers an area of ​​17 km² .

Historic Buildings

Castello Tapparelli d'Azeglio : Castle complex built in the early 14th century on the eastern edge of the village. Behind the corner towers, which are essentially from the Gothic period, there is an L-shaped, multi-storey wing from the time of Benedetto Tapparelli, who owned the castle as a fiefdom of the Marquis of Saluzzo around the middle of the 16th century and had it rebuilt like a castle. A roof loggia above the portal , from which a painted couple seems to be leaning out. Outside arcades, loggia and wooden galleries, inside mannerist painted halls with splendid beamed ceilings and frescoes of the time in the stairwell.

S. Maria delle Grazie : Wall pillar hall from 1715, contemporary painting and choir furnishings.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ^ Heinz Schomann : Piedmont, Liguria, Aosta Valley. Art monuments and museums , (Reclams Art Guide Vol. 1,2) Stuttgart: Reclam, 1982, pp. 271-272.

literature

• Viviana Moretti: Castello di Lagnasco , in: 50 anni di castelli. L'attività della Sezione Piemonte Valle d'Aosta dell'Istituto Italiano Castelli. 1964-2014 , Turin 2014, pp. 53-56.