Castello di Torricella, Medieval castle in Ventoso, Italy.

Castello di Torricella is a walled complex in Ventoso, Scandiano, with a west entrance of two original openings, one for carts and one for pedestrians, both once fitted with drawbridges. Its core is a two-storey quadrangular villa completed in 1865 in neo-Gothic style, with stone facing, pointed-arch windows and a high cornice of false corbels. A lower brick wing with a three-light loggia and a round stair turret adjoins it, and the medieval stone tower, with three stacked rooms once used as stable and bedrooms, connects to the villa on the first floor.

The Da Fogliano family built the medieval castle in the 1320s; in 1341 the Gonzaga of Reggio Emilia occupied and devastated it. In 1354 Giberto da Fogliano seized it from his cousin Ugolino, but it soon returned to Ugolino and then passed to his sons Guido, Adoardo and Antonio. In 1423 Marquis Niccolò III d'Este invested Feltrino Boiardo with Torricella; in 1446 Feltrino had the castle palace built.

Italian poet Matteo Maria Boiardo composed sections of his poem Orlando Innamorato within the castle walls during the 15th century.

Reaching the castle involves taking the A1 motorway to the Reggio Emilia exit, then following the SS467 ringroad toward Scandiano-Sassuolo. The route leads directly to the municipality where the property stands.

The medieval tower is the only surviving element of the original central core; the rest was rebuilt in the 19th century. Inside, the rooms display the coats of arms of families related to the Cugini, the castle's current owners. The 1872 oratory added by Countess Vittoria Rangone Testi has since held the owners' remains.