Italy Valle d'Aosta San Pierre Sarriod de La Tour Castle
Valle d'Aosta San Pierre Sarriod de La Tour Castle We are unsure of the origins of the castle located in Saint-Pierre, in a flat area just off the highway. The oldest building included a chapel and a square central tower (donjon) surrounded by a wall: a configuration typical of the Aosta Valley castles dating to the tenth-twelfth century. In 1420, at the tower called "turris Sariodorum", Jean Sarriod built a real castle, with representative functions, by adding a set of wings to the existing donjon. In this intervention the building of the spiral staircase in the tower (viret) and the insertion of the lancet windows in cut stone, characteristic of fifteenth century Aosta Valley. In 1478, Antoine Sarriod de la Tour, son of Jean, transformed the chapel dedicated to the Virgin and St. John the Evangelist, on the occasion were made outside the frescoes of the Crucifixion of Saint Christopher and steeple was also raised. Interesting, though fragmentary, even thirteenth-century frescoes of the chapel: the more considerable ruins are preserved on the south wall: the upper part of a Crucifixion in the vault, 2 saints, mermaids and grotesque figures - at the lower end - and the Adoration Magi from the windows. The Hall of Heads, main representative, owes its name to the ceiling supported by 171 shelves, carved in grotesque shapes - mythical monsters and animals carrying coats of arms - dating from around 1430.
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