The Castle of San Salvatore was built by the Collalto family in the second half of the 1200s. With its majestic walls, the Castle stands out on the hills of the Prealps, a once-strategic position for controlling the crossings on the Piave, and dominates the town of Susegana and the entire Venetian plain up to the lagoon. Over the centuries, the Castle of San Salvatore transforms from a defensive stronghold in the Middle Ages to a noble residence in the Renaissance. During the dominion of the Republic of Venice, three centuries known as Pax Veneta, the Collalto Counts host painters, poets, musicians, and literati in the Castle, enriching the residence with their works. San Salvatore becomes a place of culture and a center of power at the European level. In the 1700s, Count Odoardo, aspiring to the position of doge, builds a magnificent Venetian-style palace in the castle. Today, the newly restored Castle San Salvatore, after the heavy bombings of World War I, holds all the charm of past centuries and, with its historic gardens, offers a splendid setting for guided tours, receptions, and cultural events.
Excellences of the villa: The Castle San Salvatore is one of the most sumptuous and evocative late medieval fortifications in Europe, where time seems to have stood still. A romantic cobblestone avenue leads to an imposing medieval door, crosses the village between crenellated walls and shielded towers, and passing the fascinating drawbridge, leads to the stronghold of the manor. The ascent invites a slow detachment from the everyday, the silence and the extraordinary panorama all around immerses you in a unique and exclusive dimension. Here, among the enchanting medieval ruins of Palazzo Ottaviano and the Counts’ Palaces, the scenic hanging terraces stretch green, the magnificent Palazzo Odoardo rises, and ... you can breathe the scent of the centuries!
Excellences of the context: In the heart of the Prosecco Hills, now a UNESCO Heritage site, numerous suggestive paths meander through art, history, and nature between the vineyards of the Castle of San Salvatore and the Cantina Conte Collalto, which is under the same ownership.
