The Castle of Borghetto

Perhaps dating back to XIII century, the first historical certain you have in 1932 when Pope Boniface IX, the hospital gave the Hospital of St. Spirit in Sassia, along with half of the small river port on tevere, adjacent to it. after several disputes in 1478, the port and the castle of Borghetto, were given as a pledge to Cardinal Estouville.

At the end of the XV century. the people of ancient castle down in the plan and built the village a short distance from the port on the Tevere, starting an intensive transport of goods with Rome. Indeed documents attest that a large quantity of building materials came from the territory of Borghetto, was used for the construction of the new Hospital of St. Spirit in Sassia in Rome.

Between the XVII and XVIII century, beginning its slow decline and in 1798 experienced the most dramatic episode of his life: he was burned by Neapolitans, not to leave it in the hands of the French but went in the XIX century, under the dominion of the French empire.

Returned to his fall under the dominion Pontifical, remaining private property, as was already in 1790, when the room apostolic ceded to the Marquis Andosilla. Passed hands several times until you get to current owners.

By: The Borghetto Castle of Giorgio Dimitrokallis