Lancellotti Castle.

In the area of Nola stands the best preserved castle in Irpinia. The Norman friezes that trace the dating back to the period preceding the year one thousand speak of the building. Registered by the Angevin chancellery in 1277, it was sold to the Sanseverinos and the following year to the Del Balzo. Other families followed in the prestigious property, until 1632 when it was definitively sold to the Roman Lancellotti family, which still owns it today. The castle experienced many events, including the disastrous fire started in 1739 by French troops, in order to quell the anti-imperial revolts. The annexes inside the crenellated walls are in Gothic, Renaissance or Baroque style. Between them there are two courtyards containing the monumental fountain, built with Roman materials, and the Italian garden, surrounded by citrus fruits and boxwood labyrinths. The Renaissance portal offers the passage to the internal rooms including the spectacular Arms Room, where armor, halberds, spears and helmets are exhibited and the library that collects over 1000 volumes collected starting from the sixteenth century.