Tricarico: The Norman Castle

Inside you can admire a magnificent cycle of early 17th-century frescoes by Lucanian painter Pietro Antonio Ferro. The tower, cylindrical in shape and arranged on four floors and crowned by machicolations, continued to perform its military function until the ‘600s, while the castle, in 1333, è became the seat of a monastery of cloistered nuns, founded by the Countess of Tricarico, Sveva, wife of Tommaso Sanseverino, and suppressed in 1860. Since 1930 the’imposing manor has housed the Convent of the Disciples of Jesus’Eucharistic.