Castello di Montechiarugolo is a beautiful wedding venue located in Parma, Italy. This property stands enchantingly with its ancient architecture on the bank of the Enza stream, in a splendid location on the border between the countryside of Parma and Reggio. Its magical atmosphere will make your wedding reception memorable. The atmospheres are those of the most sublime Renaissance artistic-architectural expression; the imprint is that of the humanist Pomponio Torelli, who wanted to surround himself with the most prestigious artists and intellectuals.

Spaces and capacity

This historic and beautiful venue's spacious outdoor and indoor spaces allow you to hold enchanting wedding receptions with up to 200 guests indoors and up to 300 using both outdoor and indoor venues.

The splendid indoor halls, which differ from the outdoor walls in harmony and sophistication, are the appropriate settings for your enchanting banquet.

The vast ballroom, used for receptions, is a charming room with high vaulted ceilings and a fine cycle of frescoes.

The Sala delle Sirene, another room dedicated to receptions, houses three splendid and impressive paintings by Domenico Muzzi, dating from the second half of the 1700s.

The Camera Antica is frescoed with an extraordinary pictorial cycle, an enchanting testimony to the prestige of this mansion. At the same time, the Camera di Mezzo holds perhaps the castle's most important pictorial masterpiece: the figures of the Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin.

Historical background.

The structure occupies the remains of an old 13th-century building destroyed in 1313. In its present configuration, it bears witness to a 15th-century layout built at the behest of Guido Torelli, condottiere of the Visconti family and awarded the fief of Montechiarugolo. Other interventions occurred later during the 1500s when the castle became the residence of such illustrious personages as Pope Paul III and King Francis I of France.

Pomponio Torelli, a prestigious humanist and man of letters, gave the structure a new splendor by attracting numerous artists and painters of the time. Once the Torelli dynasty ended in 1602, the fortress was confiscated by the Ducal Chamber.

In 19792, the structure was the scene of a historical event of arms, which has passed into the memory of posterity as the first battle for Italian Independence, recalled by Napoleon in one of his letters and by Carducci in his oration on the I Centenary of the Tricolor. Since 1867, it has been owned by the Marchi family.