Castello di San Girolamo

It would be gorgeous but it is abandoned and in ruins

the gardens near the castle are beautiful gardens ... the castle is in complete ruin

Impossible to enter due to work in progress

it is a beautiful castle that in decay ... there is a church with its convent to visit, I hope a well-deserved restoration.

Another piece of Narni history that has spanned the centuries intact, when you take the road that leads to Narni it is impossible that your gaze does not fall, originally (cit wik.) In 1300 it was a convent of Benedictine nuns and then passed into the 1400, first to the Capococcia family who transformed it into a residence then to Count Eroli who furnished it sumptuously and gave it to the minor friars who kept it for four centuries. The subversive laws between 1850 and 1900 made him return to the town hall then to Count Valbranca and to the Bourbons. From the 20s to the 70s it was the seat of an order of missionary friars and among the young people trained there was also the singer-songwriter Rino Gaetano

The Castle of San Girolamo is an ancient Franciscan convent, founded by the Narnese cardinal Berardo Eroli in 1471, of which today nothing remains but the church, the base of the bell tower and a few other elements incorporated in the more recent construction dating back to the 19th century. The church - with a single nave - is the oldest element of the complex: it still retains the original coffered portal and above it, the elegant 19th century rose window has replaced the austere seventeenth-century window. From the outside you can see that the apse incorporates one of the four corner towers of the castle, while inside, also in the apse there is a large canvas depicting San Girolamo, inspired by one of the panels of the Ghirlandaio predella. It should therefore be noted that the famous painting "The Coronation of the Virgin" by Ghirlandaio (datable to about 1486) was originally located in the apse of this church and was the destination of a heartfelt pilgrimage until its transfer (1871) to the premises of the Narni Town Hall. It is currently kept in the Eroli Museum. The remarkable cycle of frescoes "The stigmata of San Francesco" by Spain (the Spanish Giovanni di Pietro, a pupil of Perugino) detached at the time of the restoration and brought back to canvas, are now preserved in the Palazzo Comunale di Narni. The crenellated towers of the castle of San Girolamo and the massive bell tower of its church stand out over the rural landscape of the Terni basin, clearly signaling the historical pre-existence ... now - unfortunately - debased by a serious state of neglect and decontextualized by the neighbor-namesake sports facility. [02-01-21]

in abandonment to I say so beautiful place.

An enchanted place