| Lierna Castle | |
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Castello di Lierna | |
| Lierna, Lake Como | |
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| Coordinates | 45°57′57″N 9°18′04″E / 45.96583°N 9.30111°E |
| Type | medieval castle |
| Site information | |
| Owner | private and public museum |
| Open to the public | in part |
| Condition | restored |
| Other site facilities | residential |
| Site history | |
| Built | 10th century CE |
| Materials | stone and mortar |
| Fate |
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| Battles/wars | Como-Milan War |
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Lierna Castle (Italian: Castello di Lierna) is a castle on the eastern side of Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy. The castle is built on a peninsula that protrudes into the lake[1] and consists of a group of connected buildings, rather than a single building. The main portion of the current buildings was constructed in the 10th century in Romanesque style upon former Roman ruins.[2] The castle includes the 11th-century church of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Chiesa dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro), associated with the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus.[2]
The castle is occupied by the people of the frazione of Castello in the comune of Lierna.[3][4] It is the northwesternmost of the eleven frazioni of Lierna comune.
- ^ Ratcliffe, Lucy; Teller, Matthew (April 2012). The Rough Guide to the Italian Lakes (Third ed.). Rough Guides. p. 222. ISBN 978-1-4093-5931-9.
- ^ a b "Lierna Castle - Lake Como". Como and its Lake. Archived from the original on 16 September 2014.
- ^ Chiesi, Gustavo (1894). La patria; geografia dell' Italia: Provincia di Milano. p. 206.
- ^ "Lierna". Como and its Lake. Archived from the original on 16 September 2014.