Castello della Rovere, Renaissance castle in Vinovo, Italy.
Castello della Rovere is a Renaissance castle in Vinovo, built around an inner courtyard on Piazza Rey. It features a covered walkway with terracotta details and interior rooms decorated with stucco and painted walls.
The castle was built in the late 15th century to replace an earlier fortress and was completed in the early 16th century. Between 1775 and 1820, it housed a royal porcelain factory run by chemist Vittorio Amedeo Gioanetti.
The name of the building comes from Cardinal Domenico della Rovere, who ordered its construction. Visitors today can walk through rooms where stucco work and grotesque wall paintings have survived in good condition.
The castle sits at the edge of Vinovo's town center and is easy to reach on foot from the main square. Recent restoration work has brought the building back to good condition, making it open to visitors.
The Rey family, who owned the building from 1839 to 1960, ran a carpet factory inside its walls and commissioned decorative frescoes from accomplished painters. Some of those frescoes can still be seen in certain rooms of the castle today.
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