from the Via Aurelia, Km 52.500, along a charming tree-lined street in the direction of the sea, we arrive at the Castle of Santa Severa.
The place called St. Severa is very old makes his first appearance in the literature in the year 939, but in fact insists on the ruins of the ancient Etruscan and Roman center Pyrgi. The first mention of the castle dates back to 1068.
In that year the "castellum " and his church were donated by the Count di Galeria Gerardo abbey of Farfa, one of the most powerful ecclesiastical bodies - as well as landowners of the Medieval Lazio. S. Severa remains among the possessions of Farfa until 1130, Anacleto II when the pope gave the Abbey of St. Roman Paul Outside the Walls. In that time the castle was involved in maritime trade between the coasts of Liguria and Lazio and Campania. During the thirteenth century the castle was owned by a number of noble Roman families, particularly Bonaventure, and passed to the XV Anguillara . Significant renovations were made in the fifteenth century, with the restructuring of the walls and the entire defense system. Then passes between the properties of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit and became one of the resorts most frequented by the popes, including Gregory XIII (1580), Sixtus V (1588) and Urban VIII (1633), until 1870.
In that year the "castellum " and his church were donated by the Count di Galeria Gerardo abbey of Farfa, one of the most powerful ecclesiastical bodies - as well as landowners of the Medieval Lazio. S. Severa remains among the possessions of Farfa until 1130, Anacleto II when the pope gave the Abbey of St. Roman Paul Outside the Walls. In that time the castle was involved in maritime trade between the coasts of Liguria and Lazio and Campania. During the thirteenth century the castle was owned by a number of noble Roman families, particularly Bonaventure, and passed to the XV Anguillara . Significant renovations were made in the fifteenth century, with the restructuring of the walls and the entire defense system. Then passes between the properties of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit and became one of the resorts most frequented by the popes, including Gregory XIII (1580), Sixtus V (1588) and Urban VIII (1633), until 1870.
Used as a strategic location by the Germans in 1943, the castle of St. Severa has only recently been the subject of a genuine concern by the government which has started a definitive recovery. Particularly striking is today the Saracen Tower, built in the sixteenth century.
(Source Manieri.it)
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