On the Serrone hill at the heart of Gambatesa, in Molise, a stronghold turned feudal residence and then, in the sixteenth century, a Renaissance palace by the Di Capua family whose name it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Castle, now a state museum
- Where
- Gambatesa, Province of Campobasso, Molise, Italy
- Coordinates
- 41.5108952° N, 14.9126208° E
- Named after
- The Di Capua family, its feudal owners
- State museum since
- December 2014
Overview
The Castello di Capua stands on the height of the Serrone hill, in the heart of the old centre of Gambatesa, in the Province of Campobasso, in Molise. Its name comes from the family that held it, the Di Capua, and not from the town of Capua.
History
The building went through several changes: from stronghold to feudal residence in the Middle Ages, and finally, in the sixteenth century, into a Renaissance castle-palace at the hands of the Di Capua, its feudal owners.
It then passed to baronial and marquisal ownership, later to private hands, and is today state property. From December 2014 the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities has managed it through the Polo Museale del Molise, which in December 2019 became the Direzione Regionale Musei.
What you see
The castle keeps the shape of its successive lives — the defensive core, the residential rebuilding, and the Renaissance decoration of the sixteenth-century phase.
Practical information
- Address: Via Eustachio 7, 86013 Gambatesa (CB), Molise.
- It is a state museum: opening times are those published by the Direzione Regionale Musei Molise.
Sources
- Cultural Heritage Online historical archive — original Italian entry (beniculturalionline.it), transposed and corrected 2026.
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