Serralunga d'Alba Castle

Serralunga d'Alba Castle is a well-preserved fourteenth-century noble castle in Serralunga d'Alba, Piedmont, Italy, built in 1340 by Pietrino Falletti of Barolo and his son Goffredo II after they demolished an earlier twelfth-century watchtower on the same hilltop site. The castle includes an elongated Palacium of overlapping halls, a cylindrical tower, a square tower and a chapel decorated with fifteenth-century frescoes depicting the martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, and unlike many fortresses it underwent very few later modifications, preserving its original medieval form. The Italian state purchased and restored the castle in 1949, and since 2015 it has been managed by the Regional Directorate of Museums of Piedmont, occupying a commanding hilltop position over the village and the Langhe vineyards. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/