Castello di Tufara

The castle, built by the Longobards on a tufaceous rise of modest dimensions, originally had to serve to the military surveillance of the territory. With a quadrangular plan, it was rather small but of considerable strategic importance because it was located on the road linking Apulia and the Duchy of Benevento, near the Celano-Foggia sheep-track.
Subsequent enlargements were made by Decio Crispano, who in the 16th century obtained the castle and the feud as an inheritance. It assumed then a strange shape, defined by some historians as "bean-shaped". In this way the structure also lost the typically feudal characteristic of fortress to assume that of residential castle.
After the Crispano dynasty, the castle passed to the Carafa family, and finally to the Pignatelli family, who held it until the end of the feudal era, unfortunately not caring much about the residence which inexorably, over the years, went into a slow decline.
Today it appears as an imposing building that dominates the square in front of the historical center.