Castello della Rovere, Renaissance castle in Vinovo, Italy.
Castello della Rovere is a Renaissance palace in Vinovo, built between 1480 and 1517 to Baccio Pontelli's design, facing Piazza Rey. It has a cloister with terracotta decorations and rooms with stuccoes and grotesque paintings of the school of Pinturicchio.
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 brothers, Giacomo and Luigi, bought the castle in 1839 and set up a carpet factory in it; the family lived there until the 1960s, and the north salon was frescoed for them by Rodolfo Morgari and his nephew Luigi. Vinovo bought the building in 1973.
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