Top 6 Castles around Camino

The view of the castle of San Giorgio Monferrato is one of the most evocative panoramas of the Monferrato hills. The castle dominates the town from the top of a hill and stands out clearly in the surrounding landscape.

The mighty structure of the Castle of San Giorgio dominates the surrounding valleys. The central tower of the castle dates back to around the 9th century, and was built on a spur of rock essentially for sighting purposes. Later the tower was surrounded by four towers with the construction of a defensive structure. Later, a new body was built between the original tower and the towers to contain a larger garrison of soldiers. Later the castle was transformed into a residential palace and in the 19th century it was further expanded. In my opinion, the most singular aspect of the castle is that, starting from the foundation of the original watchtower and up to today, the castle has always been inhabited.

Around 1900, the extremely wealthy entrepreneur, financier, art collector and patron Riccardo Gualino (1879–1964) began building a neo-Romanesque-neo-Gothic castle in a commanding position over the town. The architect of the building was the engineer Vittorio Tornielli. In 1918, the Castello di Cereseto became one of the residences of the Turin family, where lavish parties were celebrated with guests from the Piedmontese business and financial world, from the Agnelli to the Sella. The fort was inhabited by the family until the second half of the 20th century and is therefore well preserved.

Strategically important for to its position on the border between the ancient Marquisate of Monferrato and the possessions of the Diocese of Vercelli, the castle still retains an impressive appearance.

Micro rural hamlet in which there is an interesting concentration of churches, stately buildings and even a castle with a cylindrical tower. One of those things that you would never expect to find and that instead the Vercelli plain offers (...and often too)!

Nice climb with a nice view.

It looks like a castle straight out of a fairy tale.It is one of the castles of Monferrato with the best preserved external walls. The castle was built in the early twentieth century. Unfortunately, today the interior of the castle cannot be visited, but many people go to the village to see the imposing Cereseto castle from the outside and immortalize its beauty in their photographs.

One of the most spectacular castles in Monferrato and equipped with crenellated walls and towers. As with many ancient buildings in Italy, there are many legends about the castle of Camino. One of the most recurrent narrates that in the year 1494, Count Scarampo Scarampi, feudal lord of the Marquis of Monferrato, was accused of making forays into neighboring villages causing problems such as thefts and fires. After a long siege of the castle, which lasted two months, it was captured by the militias of Costantino Aranite, prefect of Casale. His wife, the Marquise Camilla, managed to escape from a secret passage and reach Casale to ask for a safe conduct for her husband's life. Scarampo Scarampi, however, had already been beheaded by those who had imprisoned him. When she learned of her husband's sad fate, out of desperation, the Marquise Camilla threw herself from the tower. Now, she walks around the battlements of the castle crying, while her husband walks around the manor with his head in his hand. Legend aside, in the inner courtyard of the castle of Camino there is the sarcophagus of the noble Scarampo, depicted at rest holding his head with his left hand.