Comune: | Castefiorentino |
Località: | 0571629722 |
Sito internet: | castellooliveto.it |
Via: | di Monteolivo 6 |
This castle, a rectangular brick edifice with high walls, four crenellated keeps, bell towers and a clock, was built in the 15th century by the Florentine Pucci family, as their country residence, but also as a fortified villa to guard the huge landed estate the family owned in the area. In the 16th century, the humanist Benedetto Lamprodio was a guest here, and during his stay he composed the ode Ad Olivetam Villam Laurentii Pucci. Access is through a gateway that leads into an enclosure and on into a courtyard with a four-arched loggia and a fine well for the collection of rainwater. The interior still has some of the original 15th-century furniture, weapons, trophies and a collection of portraits painted between the 16th and 18th centuries.