Odescalchi Castle

On the remains of the ancient Punicum and of the Villa Ulpianus, around about the XI cent. results a small settlement protected by a high cylinder tower, maybe wanted by the count of Tuscia, with a cult dedicated to Santa Marinella, cared for by a community of Brazilian monks.

In the later centuries, across the complex events and changing owners, was made into a castle, enclosing the ancient cylinder towers (XV cent.), rest still the strangest construction of the ramparts and of the batteria (XVII cent). In 1634 the pope Urban VIII began the realisation of a great door that had to be moved to S. Marinella a part of the traffic of Civitavecchia, the work was not ever finished. The Odescalchi Castle with the near village, frequented by fishermen and huntsmen with its own plan characterised by three angular towers and one central, it remains controlled by the lower little harbour and of the coast, until our times.