The Castle of Caccuri

In the early 1800s, the ancient manor was inherited by Guglielmo Barracco, son of Baron Luigi, who transformed the castle into a comfortable noble residence, equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, including hot running water and central heating. The restoration work was followed by the architect Adolfo Mastrigli who planned the construction of the cylindrical tower that dominates the castle and which has become, over the years, the symbol of Caccuri.

The Tower

Designed by the architect Adolfo Mastrigli commissioned by Baron Guglielmo Barracco, it was completed on November 4, 1885. Inside it hides, on the first floor, an ancient water collection tank that was to serve both the needs of the house and to feed cascade the fountains that embellished the bastion, the entrance hall and the entrance garden; on the second floor a retractable spiral staircase, allows you to climb on the roof from where it is possible to admire an enchanting panorama that extends from the mountain of the Serra Grande throughout the valley of the Marquisate to Crotone and its sea.

The Tower

Designed by the architect Adolfo Mastrigli commissioned by Baron Guglielmo Barracco, it was completed on November 4, 1885. Inside it hides, on the first floor, an ancient water collection tank that was to serve both the needs of the house and to feed cascade the fountains that embellished the bastion, the entrance hall and the entrance garden; on the second floor a retractable spiral staircase, allows you to climb on the roof from where it is possible to admire an enchanting panorama that extends from the mountain of the Serra Grande throughout the valley of the Marquisate to Crotone and its sea.

The Norman Chapel

Inside the Castle there is the Palatine Chapel which still retains the form conferred by the renovation works sponsored by the Cavalcanti family and carried out between 1669 and 1705. Inside there are important pictorial works such as “La Maddalena Penitente” by the great painter Neapolitan Domenico Gargiulo and “The Miracles of St. Thomas Aquinas“, a canvas created by the Bolognese painter Domenico Maria Muratori which is the model of the altarpiece of a similar subject preserved in Rome in the Church of the Holy Spirit of the Neapolitans.

The Norman Chapel

Inside the Castle there is the Palatine Chapel which still retains the form conferred by the renovation works sponsored by the Cavalcanti family and carried out between 1669 and 1705. Inside there are important pictorial works such as “La Maddalena Penitente” by the great painter Neapolitan Domenico Gargiulo and “The Miracles of St. Thomas Aquinas”, a canvas created by the Bolognese painter Domenico Maria Muratori which is the model of the altarpiece of a similar subject preserved in Rome in the Church of the Holy Spirit of the Neapolitans.

The Village

In Caccuri the Sila highland breeze matches up with that of the sea. It is the secret of Calabria, more than a piece of land between the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Sea. Here’s everything thet can enchant a historian, an artist, philosopher. In the background of the castle and the beautiful park made of limestone they are between the castle and the pines of the park. There is also the Church of “Santa Maria delle Grazie” of the fourth century, dominates the old town with its twisty roads that receive the guest by putting him in a suggestive atmosphere.

The Village

In Caccuri the Sila highland breeze matches up with that of the sea. It is the secret of Calabria, more than a piece of land between the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Sea. Here’s everything thet can enchant a historian, an artist, philosopher. In the background of the castle and the beautiful park made of limestone they are between the castle and the pines of the park. There is also the Church of “Santa Maria delle Grazie” of the fourth century, dominates the old town with its twisty roads that receive the guest by putting him in a suggestive atmosphere.