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continua la tua spesasan martino langhe is located in CLAVESANA, A SMALL village IN THE PROVINCE OF CUNEO IN THE SOUTH-WESTERN LANGA
Coming from the Turin-Savona motorway:
Exit at Carrù, turn right and continue towards Clavesana; arrived at the Clavesana sign, cross the bridge, turn left, after the town of Clavesana Bassa (Cantina Clavesana) turn right towards Ghigliani; after the new bridge over the Tanaro, turn left for 2.6 km, you will arrive at the small village of San Martino: you have arrived.
The territory includes an alluvial plain, formed on the left bank of the Tanaro river, where the main nucleus of the town is located: the Madonna della Neve hamlet with the hamlets La Prà, Tetti and Gerino.
To the right of the Tanaro there is a strip of hills of the lower Langa, where the historic center of the capital, the hamlets Lo Sbaranzo, Surie, Ghigliani and San Bartolomeo rise.
These hills, in the lower part of the steepest slopes due to river erosion, are occupied by woods often interrupted by spectacular natural gullies, where you can see the lithological stratification of marl and sandstone typical of the entire area.
The territory of the municipality lies between 258 and 641 meters above sea level. The altimetric spawn is thus of 383 meters.
Seat of an ancient Aleramic marquisate, Clavesana remained the capital of the marquisate power from 1142 to 1387, the year of the death of the Marquis Manuele II.
The small potentate, which extended (at least until the mid-thirteenth century, when Bonifacio Tagliaferro divided his domains with his brother Otto II) to some areas of Liguria (around Andora), had a difficult life, wedged as it was between the various powers of the area: in the end, Genoa incorporated the marquis territories in Liguria, while Saluzzo annexed the areas near Mondovì.
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There are two castles in this country. The oldest, from the 12th century, is outside the town, called de "La Volta", subsequently modified and currently in a bad state of conservation; the second, in the concentric, of the fifteenth century in its most ancient and original structures. Both belonged to the Falletti marquises and in the one of the concentric, now owned by the municipality, Silvio Pellico was hosted there; today it houses the regional Enoteca del Barolo, a hotel school and a small ethnographic-ethnological museum of Barolo.
Dating from the 12th century, it has an almost square structure with one side of almost 9 meters and an original height of about 36 meters, dominating the Tanaro valley.
Imposing for the height of the walls and for its strategic position, it dates back to the first half of the fifteenth century. With a mixed masonry structure, stones and bricks, it incorporates an older tower inside. Privately owned it is not always possible to visit.
Imposing quadrangular construction located almost in the center of the town and surrounded by a large park with considerable medieval traces. Entirely renovated after 1512 by Daniele Malabaila who bought it from Giorgio Roero, it still belongs to the same family.
Unique example in a construction area with a 10-sided plant. In masonry, with a decorative structure at the top formed by a multiple round of blind arches, it can be dated to the end of 1300, the only surviving element of a much larger fortified complex.
Cylindrical, in masonry, attributable to the end of the fourteenth century, this tower has survived the castle, already documented in the thirteenth century.
Medieval construction dating back to the 14th century on an already documented fortification. The body of the castle was completely rebuilt in the nineteenth century. Privately owned, it cannot be visited.
The Serralunga Castle consists of a fourteenth-century fortress that dominates the top of the town and certainly represents a jewel for its architectural perfection and the state of conservation. It was built by Pietrino Falletti between 1340 and 1350.
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