Castello Ciamarra Torella del Sannio

Placed on the line of the tratturo Lucera - Castel di Sangro, it was attributed by someone the role of fiscal castle, by some other of castle-rags. Specifically, it is located on top of Colle Ciglione, high above the village, where the first Lombard tower was built in the ninth century. In the 13th century it was fortified as a true castle by the Angevins. In the fifteenth century it was enlarged by the Aragonese and then passed to various barons including Ferrante of Aragon, the Francone and Caracciolo, passing later to the family Ciamarra. The castle has the shape of an aristocratic palace with an irregular rectangular plan and brick walls. It has three circular towers with a top decorated with battlements and a cone-shaped hood for the roof and a lower square tower. The property of the castle is currently divided between the family of Pasquale Venditti of Bojano, who in 2004 bought the part originally owned by the branch Aurelio Ciamarra (1818 son of Antonio Ciamarra who in 1825 bought the whole castle from Caracciolo) reduced to a semi-ruin and then restored with great skill, and the families of Mariano Pica Ciamarra and Leonardo Cammarano who own the remaining part of the castle originally owned by the Aurelio Ciamarra branch (1811, another son of Antonio Ciamarra) and which today houses a museum dedicated to the painter Elena Ciamarra.
The rooms that can be visited today are gathered in the oldest part of the building and have been rearranged to exhibit an important number of the painter's works.