Casaleggio Boiro

And 'here the castle of the "Innominato"on TV.

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With its castle strategically perched on the highest point of a hill and hidden by the woods, Casaleggio dominates an area of ​​lush vineyards, fertile land and pine forests that characterize it as a "mountain area." The town grew as a result of the importance of its fortress, built in part in the X and partly in the eleventh century., As we read on the bas-relief at the entrance. The village, separated from the manor that is surrounded by medieval buildings, belonged by Imperial Diploma of Otto I, to the Land Monferrina and Aleramo's descendants considered it excellent reference point during their journeys to the domains in the East or from the ports of where they embarked for the Crusades. It passed then into the hands of the Genoese aristocrats like the Spinola (with investiture by the empress of Byzantium, Sofia, sister of the Marquis of Monferrato), the Fieschi, the Ristori and the Guiglia counts. Despite being located along Capanne di Marcarolo's road that once led to the Apennine mountain pass and  suffered the succession and the passage of the most diverse nationalities troops, the imposing structure of the castle did not suffer serious damage over the centuries and still today we can identify the intentions of its original architects which had nestled between the square towers, not much higher than the central core. The building became the "dell'Innominato" castle when Sandro Bolchi choose it as the setting for some of the TV drama sequences "I Promessi Sposi" and thanks to the grant of Guiglia counts, owners for a long time, you can visit it in summer and autumn
The most important place of worship which brought together for centuries the inhabitants of Casaleggio, Lerma and Mornese no longer exists: three naves and very old, this first parish now ruined was transferred to the fifteenth century closer to the castle, on the existing structures of a Romanesque church. The latest Parish of S. Martino, built in the nineteenth century, saves the valuable floor donated by Vittorio Emanuele II and altars and valuable blades.
The current Casaleggio Boiro offers to sports enthusiasts a nice football field and possibility to play tambourine. The whole area including the artificial lakes Lavagnina with their gold mines, now inactive, a haven of high tourist interest.
Local productions: an important cattle market sums at regular intervals the intensity and the value of this business in the communal area; the expanses of vineyards provide high quality grapes.




 

Il castello dove fu girato " I promessi sposi" con N.Castelnuovo e P.Pitagora.

La chiesa parrocchiale.