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For the city in the province of Lecce, see Castro (LE).
Castro was an ancient city on the west side of
Lake Bolsena in the present-day
comune of
Ischia di Castro, northern
Lazio,
Italy.
History
The settlement Castro was founded in
prehistoric times, and was later the seat of a not specified
Etruscan city, problably identifiable with
Statonia. In the
Middle Ages it had a castle (Latin:
castrum), hence the name. As an autonomous commune, it remained anyway under the
Papal suzerainty. In 1527 an independentist faction took the power, but they were ousted by
Pier Luigi Farnese, whose family was to rule Castro until the 17th century. In the same year another Farnese, Gian Galeazzo, had it sacked in the wake of the
Sack of Rome.
In
1537, three years after the election of
Alessandro Farnese as Pope Paul III, it became the seat of an independent Duchy under his son
Pier Luigi. The town, which in the meantime had reduced to a "gypsies' hut" in the words of a contemporary, was reconstructed under the design of
Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.
Later the enmity of the powerful Papal family of the
Barberini caused so-called
Wars of Castro, fought during the reigns of
Urban VIII Barberini and
Innocent X against the
Dukes (now also lords of Parma and Piacenza) Odoardo Farnese and then his son
Ranuccio II. The wars ended badly for the city: on the orders of Innocent X, the city was razed on
September 2,
1649, and never rebuilt.
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