Castle Pandone Venafro, Cerro al Volturno, Italy
Up on the edge of the plain the magnificent landscape Reaches to the nearby mountains with the lazy sweetness of its slopes and banks thick with olive trees, topped by utterly green, leafy crowns; the copious plants in tidy arrangement make up a wood, united by a congenial solidarity of existence. The first nucleus of the castle is a megalithic structure, the remains of Which are visible at the base of the keep Lombard. The development of the fortified complex occurred in the second half of the tenth century.
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