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Cenni storici su Castel Rubello
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CASTEL
RUBELLO
MODERNO BORGO MEDIEVALE
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di
Magda Serafini Trinci
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CASTEL
RUBELLO,
rocca guerriera
contesa dai Trinci in epoca medievale
e tenuta agricola ereditata dai diretti discendenti
nel XIX secolo,
a testimonianza dei "corsi e ricorsi storici"
nel 2000 ritorna di proprietà di un'unica coppia:
Fabrizio Serafini Degli Abbati Trinci e
Maria Carolina Matranga di Manticaceme…
"…e come già accadde nel '500 con
Federico Valenti e Lucrezia Ottieri…"
Consci d'essere tutori d'un bene patrimonio
dell'umanità, i proprietari si prefiggono di restaurare l'intero
complesso e restituire ad esso l'antico ruolo attraverso attuali
concetti d'utilizzo e moderna funzionalità, riproponendo,
così, CASTEL RUBELLO non solo
come struttura decorativa ma soprattutto come punto di riferimento
per il territorio:
fonte di lavoro, di cultura, di bellezza, di mantenimento
di valori millenari e di sacre memorie della più antica storia
puramente italica.
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storia di CASTEL RUBELLO |
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First
an Etruscan settlement, then a Roman fortress, Castel
Rubello occupied a strategic position that secured
water to the city of Orvieto and was consequently the scene
of bloody battles during the Middle Ages, as noble families
struggled to seize control.
With the digging of the famous "Pozzo
di San Patrizio" (Dwell of Saint Patrick), due to
become the synonymous of perennial source for it attains the
source of river Tiber, what made Orvieto
actually unseizeble, there was no more need of patrolling the
roads leading to the City so the Valenti
family easily obtained control of the fortress in 1500.
Within two generations Castel Rubello
had been transformed into a magnificent residence in line with
the style of Renaissance country houses, with vaults ceilings
richly frescoed, they say, by Maestro
Lombardelli ( XVI cent) |
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By
the 19th century there may not have been any more threat of
a siege, but other "activities" flourished abundantly at Castel
Rubello. The enormously wealthy Marino
Marini, an ancestor of the current owners, the Marchesi
Serafini degli Abbati Trinci, moved to Rome, where
he was made Senator of the newly born Kingdom of Italy, in gratitude
for having financed the Garibaldi's
unification campaign.
Marini's dashing eldest
son Giuseppe, clearly less
inclined towards civic duties than his father, soon made himself
dangerously unpopular in Rome on account of his penchant for
high society beauties. |
After a succession of the dangerous duels involving Giuseppe
and the enraged husbands of the society beauties, Marino
decided to buy Castel Rubello
for his son, to keep him out of the mischief. But Giuseppe's
arrival coincides with the first reports of a "ghost" at the
Castle: a young and beautiful woman dressed in a white negligée,
who would appear in the courtyard at night bearing a candle.
Had not the local doctor's wife been so charming One might be
tempted to believe the supernatural…….. |
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