VISIT BESENO CASTLE
PIAZZA GRANDE
The largest courtyard inside the castle is known as ‘Piazza Grande’. It is dominated by the Count’s Palace, through a large loggia located at the middle bastion. It encloses service spaces, including the ‘Clock Tower’, the ‘Powder Magazine’, and the remains of the so-called ‘Stables’. |
BAKEHOUSE ROOM
A room overlooking the Court of Honour, probably near the kitchens, is characterised by the presence of a large oven once used for baking bread. |
WELL AND CISTERN
A ground-floor room houses a stone well from which it was possible to draw water collected in an underground cistern carved into the rock. The channel that conveyed rainwater from the gutters into a basin with a filter, and then into the cistern, is still visible and functional today. |
HALL OF THE MONTHS
On the second floor of a partially destroyed building, the room retains traces of a pictorial decoration from the Renaissance period. The frieze, traditionally referred to as a representation of the Months, depicts a vast and deep mountain and rural landscape populated by wayfarers and peasants |
MIDDLE BASTION WITH LOGGIA
Adjacent to the Count’s Palace, the middle bastion preserves traces of residential spaces reachable by an imposing staircase. Today this area, now a garden, is closed on one side by a portico overlooking Piazza Grande |
SOUTH BASTION
The south bastion is equipped with standard defensive features but also houses a niche with stone seats, elegantly frescoed. |