Castello Odescalchi Santa Marinella

Il Castello Odescalchi che, attorniato da palme e pini marittimi, domina il porticciolo turistico di Santa Marinella, sorge sui resti dell’antica Punicum e della Villa di Ulpiano.

The Castello Odescalchi, surrounded by palms and pine trees, overlooking the marina of Santa Marinella, stands on the ruins of the Villa of Punicum and Ulpian.

It has a feature plant with three corner towers and a very ancient, central.

The high central cylindrical tower was probably built to protect the small town that once stood there around the eleventh century, which has a center of worship built, according to tradition, by a community of monks, devotees in Santa Marina, a young Christian martyr, who gave the town its name.

The Castle was built in the fifteenth century, to include the ancient cylindrical tower and made stronger in the seventeenth century. the construction of the ramparts.

The works for the construction of a large harbor, which was to move to Santa Marinella part of the traffic Civitavecchia, launched in 1634 by Pope Urban VII, were never completed.

The castle was owned by the lords of Vico Of Anguillara, the Orsini, the Hospital of St. Spirit in Sassia and finally, since 1887, Odescalchi, the current owners.