Who goes to the Brenner Pass from the south, just before reaching the city of Vipiteno , can not fail to note two castles facing each other from dominant positions: these are Castel Castel Pietra and Tasso.
The first is located on the right, high up, overlooking the highway, the second on the opposite side.
rocky hill on which stands the stone castle was the site of a fort Roman.
Vipiteno The basin was in fact very important for its location at the foot of the Brenner.
dominance and the natural protection provided by the rocky spur that comes off the mountain with un'insellatura, which passed through the ancient trail that connected up with the Trens Pfitsch and the basin of Sterzing before the opening of the road in the valley., made the castle a point of strategic control.
Its ancient name "Sprechindenstein" (voice in the rock) almost certainly refers to the phenomenon that was reflected by the slope of the mountain behind, interpreted as the voice of divine or magical forces.
The castle is mentioned for the first time only in 1241, in the middle of dispute between the accounts of the bishops of Brixen in Tyrol, which entrusted the family feud Tyrolean Trautson. In 1241, in fact, was a treaty of peace between the contenders for dismantling of all the castles built during the war, but, thanks to particular clauses, Sprechenstein escaped destruction.
The original seems to be built over the ruins of an abandoned medieval settlement, and perhaps strengthened. This would explain why the complex is formed on nuclei are joined later by curtain walls.
The oldest is the cylindrical tower with a Romanesque door access to a considerable height from the ground.
The crown is merlons on which was placed a conical roof. Around the stem you can see the holes that held the outdoor balcony which is accessed by a small door with round arch. A few years later were added residential buildings, for example, that of the south-east with only the curious pitched roof which shows the circular apse of the chapel of St. Erasmus.
Inside signals the presence of fourteenth-century frescoes that testify to the work done in the Gothic period, characterized by significant vertical thrust. Other reconstruction work were prepared at the turn of the '400 and '500 extension of the south block, turned into a palace. Around 1508 it was enlarged and transformed the industry in the eastern wing for housing the receiver, leaving, perhaps, the old palace south. But the castle loses its importance, the Trautson live there occasionally. When in 1775 the family dies, the manor passed in the possessions of Auersperg principles which are still the owners. The complex, largely uninhabited, slowly deteriorates, the stretch in 1824 south is partly demolished. The owners operate repeated restoration. During the Second World War the castle was damaged by air raids that were aimed at the railway bridge below. Auersperg still spoke with ten-year intervention. Also inflicted serious damage to the interior, their furnishings and decorative frescoes on the walls and rooms that Prince Franz Josef Auersperg Trautson intends to restore.
The interior, unfortunately, can not be visited, but the castle itself is well worth the walk, I got there along to the south, leaving the main road from Innsbruck. When you are under the cliff dominated by the castle should be careful about left at a sawmill, and immediately after you open up a clearing where you can park near the Gasthof Burgfrieden . Looking up you will be enraptured by the castle that lies on the road.
From here, behind some houses a path
that, over a drop of 130 meters, leading to the castle. Going up the side of a grassy slope, the view opens on Sterzinger Moos and the neighbor across the Castel Tasso
many snails go for a walk taking with them their "campers".
The trail leads to a dirt road that, in plan and in a few meters, leading to the castle.
The silence is nice and behind these ancient walls echo the thrill of passing time choked by a "rock voice" that tells a legend of love and death: the pair Castellani, who lived at Castle Stone spent the days together and happy, but the lord of Castel Tasso,
taken from morbid and unrequited passion for the lady, is affixed to the walls of his castle and, during a walk in the garden of the couple, with an arrow struck at the heart of her husband. He died in the arms of his beloved wife. To this day, at night, sometimes it can be seen wandering among the ancient walls with the arrow stuck in his chest. But the murderess she found peace and made a miserable end.
front of the gate is closed,
defended several ferocious dogs from barking, it opens the incomparable spectacle of the valley below and the whole of Sterzing Ridnauntal erupt on the bottom from the glaciers of the mighty peaks of the Stubai Alps.
Walk very impressive.
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