Palazzo Marchesale di Ripalimosani

Commonly called Castle, even if the typology of the structure would classify it as a noble palace, the building can be considered, without any doubt, a key witness of the history of Ripese.
Built around the year 1000, it was the living quarters of the local lords who succeeded one another over the centuries and it was precisely these passages of different lordships that leave important evidence today about the "life" of the castle.
At each succession, notaries compiled inventories of the property, and the study of these documents reveals how the structure has undergone various transformations over the centuries without losing the connotations of the fortified palace, highlighted by the tapered shape and the internal courtyard, a junction for access to the individual parts, the hanging garden and finally the tower. In 1516 Marino Mastrogiudice became lord of Ripalimosani, who, five years later, carried out the first real restoration and enlargement of the old castle, converting it into a marquis's palace, but always having that visual and spatial dominance of the whole town of Ripalimosani.
After a whole century from the detailed survey of the goods of the marquis Francesco Maria Riccardo drawn up by the notary Francesco Di Bartolomeis in 1644, the notary Francesco Antonio Amoroso draws up, in 1742, the inventory of the movable goods of the deceased marquis Castrocucco on request of Ottavio Maria Mormile.