Castello di Naro

CASTLE NARO The patient and demanding restoration lasted five years has brought the structure back to its former glory, by fusing the historical rigor with elements of innovation and doing the Naro Castle an extraordinary location for events and ceremonies as well as a unique building for exclusive holidays. The meeting room, the dining room and especially the wide green spaces represent a very picturesque setting for any event; from business meetings to exclusive dinner at the wedding party. The staff and partners of the Naro Castle are able to support the client on every organizational aspect of the event with the goal of making every initiative a success. L 'hospitality of the Naro Castle consists of 8 rooms each able to arouse different emotions in the guests, welcoming them into spaces designed to enjoy the place in total peace and relaxation. The castle also has a space dedicated to wellness; sauna, turkish bath, swimming pool in the rock with Jacuzzi, color therapy; all harmoniously integrated with the architectural and natural elements of this enchanting place that give an experience of total intrinsic harmony of the structure and the landscape that surrounds it. HISTORY The Naro castle tells a story of pride and courage: Naro is "the castle of the Siccardi", a powerful fortress, symbolically raised to extreme defense against the greed of the town of Cagli and then against that of the counts of Urbino, Montefeltro. But who were the Siccardi? Were powerful feudal lords, an ancient and powerful Guelph family, already mentioned in the eleventh century chronicles: trained exercise of arms, its members were guarding several fortifications in Cagli, and Piobbico, and had dominion over vast lands. Set on a rugged hill above the river valley Candigliano, at 417 m above sea level, the castle stands isolated on a rock, in a strategic location and control of an important road, which in ancient times was the passage for Massa Trabaria . In the early thirteenth century the expansionist ambitions of the nearby free town of Cagli also touched Naro: the castle for its strategic position could become an important fortress of the township control (in addition to ensuring tax reddite common). In the summers of the years 1217 and 1219 Philip, Angelo and Rainaldo Siccardi are forced to subdue the Naro castle and their other castles to the municipality of Cagli. Rainald asked the municipality in exchange for the loyalty of its castles, the Podesta office (for one year) and several money, more grain, wine, firewood and a worthy dwelling in the city center. But the pact of convenience between the Siccardi and Cagli was short lived. A few years later Filippa Siccardi, feudal castle of Naro, reopened, sua sponte, hostilities against the common. Filippa could not resist a few years against the overwhelming force of Cagli. Already in 1227 Cagli could reintegrate in their district of Bosso castles, Valveduta, Castiglione, Gable and .... ... Naro. But Filippa had resisted until the last siege and returned to the municipality of Cagli castles pretty beat. The resistance was so strong that the town of Cagli, in the fear of being subjected to other reprisals, forced her not to compensate the damaged forts. In the fourteenth century, the castle is no longer in the hands of Siccardi, but is owned by the Mastiffs family, a family of warriors, whose origin dates back to 1162 when the Emperor Frederick of Swabia had to conquer Cagli. In 1388 lord of the castle is Nolfo Mastiffs, Cagli of the Ghibellines, captain of the militia of Count Antonio da Montefeltro, and husband of Calepretissa, sister of the same Antonio Conte. There is no news on the Naro castle and its vicissitudes until the second half of the sixteenth century, by which time the castle belongs to the Berardi family, other noble house Cagli, and counts among his ancestors a cardinal, Cardinal Berardo Berardi, appointed by Pope Nicholas IV, and in the hands of the Berardi family it will remain until the first 800 years.