Cly Castle
| Cly castle | |
|---|---|
| Aosta Valley, Italy | |
| File:Castello di Cly 01.JPG Cly castle ruins | |
| Site information | |
| Controlled by | Municipality of Saint-Denis |
| Location | |
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| Height | 2520 ft. |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1207 |
| Built by | Challant family |
Cly is a castle in the Italian municipality of Saint-Denis, in Aosta Valley, northwest Italy. It belongs to the so-called primitive style of castle, consisting of a keep with a surrounding wall. The ruins rise from a bed of metamorphic rock, on the edge of a fault line which extends to the Quart Castle.[1]
History
[edit | edit source]Cly was first mentioned in a document from 1207, in which the "chapel sancti Mauricij (Saint Maurice) de castro Cliuo" is mentioned among the goods of the Vicarage of Saint-Gilles in Verrès, but the keep has been dated to 1027 using an analysis of the tree rings in its timbers (dendrochronology). Originally a fief held from the Counts of Savoy, in 1376 the direct ownership passed to the Duchy of Savoy, which installed a castellan to administer it for them until abandoned in 1550. The castle fell to ruins in the centuries that followed.[2]
The castle today
[edit | edit source]Eventually the castle ruins became the property of the nearby town of Saint-Denis. The castle is visible atop the hill overlooking Chambave.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Francesco Prinetti, Andar per sassi. Le rocce alpine fra natura e cultura. Valle d'Aosta, Canavese, Valsesia, Quart, éd. Musumeci, 2010, pp. 36-37, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- ^ Aosta Valley Castles, accessed on 12th March 2015.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Cly Castle - Aosta Valley Tourism Board (Office du Tourisme de la Vallée d'Aoste), accessed March 12th, 2015.
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