Fortress of the Landi or Bardi Castle (PR) - Emilia Romagna

This Castle also has a ghost from a legend where a romantic love story was tragically consummated. Moroello and Soleste were madly in love, but the latter committed suicide by throwing herself from the tower by mistake... #tuttitaly

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The Fortezza dei Landi stands imposingly on a rocky outcrop in the medieval village of Bardi, in the province of Parma. The building was erected between the 9th and 10th centuries to defend the local population from the aggression of the Hungarians, who raided the Po Valley.

In 1257, the Ghibelline Ubertino Landi of Piacenza bought the castle, making it the capital of his family's domains. During the fifteenth century, the Landis modified the fortress, giving it its current appearance.

At the end of the 16th century, the castle became a princely residence with an art gallery, family archive, library, and arms exhibition at the behest of Federico Landi. In 1682, the castle's decline began with the Landi's extinction. The recovery started only after the 1960s.

The fortress is equipped with an utterly viable patrol walkway, the irregular shape of which follows the shape of the rocky outcrop.

Inside we can visit various environments that reproduce life in the castle: the residence, the lodgings, the chapel, the torture room, the parade ground.

The spirit of Moroello

It seems that the ghost of Moroello lodges in the Fortezza dei Landi, the handsome knight who took his own life on his return from the war once he heard the news of the suicide of his beloved Soleste.

Believing him dead, the young woman had thrown herself from the keep after seeing troops with enemy insignia approaching the castle. However, he could not know that those uniforms had been worn by Moroello and his men in defiance of the beaten enemy.

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