The Rocca d’Anfo
Rocca d'Anfo, whose strategic function was already recognized by the Visconti in the XIV century, is a fortified military complex built in the fifteenth century by the Venetian Republic in the town of Anfo on Lake Idro.
The agglomerate, made up of military construction, is distributed in a triangular strip of land. One side is roughly one kilometer of the shore of the lake, the rest is spread on the eastern slope of Mount Censo, almost to its peak, with a diffrence in elevation which varies from 371 m s.l.m. at the side to the 1050m s.l.m. at the summit of the mountain.
Built on the slope of Mount Censo, an area of 50 hectares, the Rocca d'Anfo was renovated and enlarged in different periods by the military engineers of Napoleon Bonaparte, Giuseppe Zanardelli and the Italian Army Corps of Engineers. He lost its strategic value in 1918, when the Trentino finally passed to the Kingdom of Italy.
Used by the Italian Army as a barracks for the training of conscripts, the complex was also used as gunpowder and weapons depot. It was decommissioned in 1975, but it remained bound to the Ministry of Defence until 1992.
The site of the Rocca d'Anfo is state-owned, licensed to Lombardy Region for its safety and enhancement. Comunità Montana di Valle Sabbia runs it from 2015 by opening the guided tours in the spring and summer weekends.
What you can see in Rocca
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Advance Tower of the Lunette (Observatory)
At the foot of the Mount Censo, the summit of the Mount Parlessi was levelled, excavated and transformed following the project of the engineer del…
Belvedere Battery (Batteries toward Tyrol)
During the Napoleonic period, the fortification works of the high part of the Rocca d’Anfo included also the Batteria Belvedere as control of the north…
Gola Barracks or Square of Weapons (upper Barracks)
Contrary to what demonstrated until that time, Napoleon Bonaparte distrusted the attachment of the urban fortifications, and he wanted to have in the Rocca d’Anfo…
Lunette at backhand fires from above, Salient of the Lunette and Bunker of the Salient (Lunette)
Situated at the base of the advance Tower of the Lunette, those buildings have the function to split the mountains and to menace the road.…
Rocca Vecchia Battery, Guardhouse and Magazine
The whole lot of these buildings, dated back to the period of the dominion of the Repubblica Serenissima, was distributed on the road and it…
Rolando Battery
The first trace of this battery, which constitutes the defensive line towards Tyrol, dates back to 1803 when, according to the project wanted by Napoleon…
Statuto Battery
At the end of the 18th century, during the renovation period of the defensive equipment by Giuseppe Zanardelli, Batteria Statuto was built in front of…
Tirolo Battery
This battery, together with the Battery Tyrol and Belvedere, constitutes the defensive line towards Tyrol. These buildings cannot be considered separately from a military point…
Venetian Battery
This building exerts a control position on the Idro Lake and part of the Valley and it dates back to the dominion of the Repubblica…
Venetian Walls
During the period of the Repubblica Serenissima, Rocca d’Anfo, defined by the Venetian senate “door of the state”, was composed by a fortification that developed…
Zanardelli Barracks (Palazzo del Comando)
At the end of the 19th century, Palazzo del Comando (nowadays known as Zanardelli Barraks) was built in the zone that delimited the area where…
ROCCA D'ANFO: the events
DISCOVER VALLE SABBIA
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Per chi ama le passeggiate nella natura e rovine, dall alto bellissima veduta del lago d Idro .La visita è guidata , consiglio scarpe comode una bottiglietta d acqua e una torcia
308brescia -
Finalmente è tornata visitabile. Un grande patrimonio storico, conservato grazie al lavoro di volontari ed appassionati. Da vedere assolutamente!
Marcie Leech -
Abito a pochi km da questo posto e non l’avevo mai visitato. Ne vale davvero la pena, è un gioiello che speriamo in futuro venga valorizzato come merita…
Mady877 -
ua vera meraviglia del passato io e mia moglia abbiamo fatto il giro del lago con il battello e da li e’ veramente un incanto si puo’ ammirare questa struttura in tutto il suo splendore provatelo
RobertoF