The castle of Marsaglia stands on the boundary with the municipality of Piscina, and owes its fame to what happened around it: the battle of Marsaglia, fought nearby on 4 October 1693 between the French led by general Catinat and the Piedmontese commanded by duke Victor Amadeus II of Savoy.
What to see
The structure has a quadrilateral plan and rises over three floors, though it must originally have been taller. Of the towers only one survives, the corner one. On the facade the faint marks of the old drawbridge openings can still be made out, which must have been set into the entrance tower.
Visiting
Of what the castle defended nothing is left: the moat and the outer defences have vanished entirely, and the interior too has been heavily rebuilt compared with the original design. What remains is the shell, and it should be looked at as such.
Our editors' tip
Look at the two walls flanking the main facade: they are very different from each other. That is the observation from which Flavio Conti, in his work on the castles of Piedmont, deduced, by analysing the materials, brick and terracotta, that the castle may have been built in several stages rather than in a single campaign.