Castle of Baccaresca
The Castle of Colmollaro was a strategic point in Gubbio’s defences in its south-eastern territories, but is best remembered as a fief of Bosone Il Novello dei Raffaelli, a friend of Dante Alighieri’s. Their friendship began while Bosone Novello was podestà in Arezzo, first in 1315 and then from 1316-1317. Tradition has it that the poet stayed in Gubbio, and in this castle, as a guest of Bosone Novello and that it was here that he composed the tercet in “The Divine Comedy” inspired by Gubbio. Inside the fortress, on a lintel above a doorway, an inscription is still visible whose meaning remains a mystery even to scholars.