Castello di Alboino Site Features

What stands is dominated by two towers: the tall square keep, and the smaller bell tower beside it, both in stone and both medieval.

Fragments of curtain wall survive around them, following the contour of the summit -- the enclosure was shaped by the hill rather than by a designed plan.

The residential and service buildings that would have filled the enclosure are largely gone, which leaves the site reading as towers on a hilltop rather than as a castle.

The position is the architecture: the summit commands the town, the valley and the approaches, and there is no higher ground nearby.

The keep

The tall square tower that is Feltre's skyline from every direction.

The view

Over the roofs of the old town to the Piave valley and the Dolomites -- the reason most people make the climb.

The walls

Fragments of curtain following the contour of the summit.

The approach

A five-minute climb from Piazza Maggiore, through the top of the old town.

The castle occupies the summit of the hill Feltre is built on, at around 400 metres, above the Piave valley in the Belluno pre-Alps.

The town runs down the ridge below it toward the valley floor; beyond, the ground rises again into the Vette Feltrine and the Dolomiti Bellunesi national park to the north.

The position controls both the valley and the routes through it, which is the reason the hill has been fortified since antiquity.