castello di rivalta

I attended a family wedding here, which was absolutely perfect. The church is beautiful, and the setting is lovely. The restaurant nearby (la Rocchetta) is excellent. For such a special occasion, this is a perfect choice.

Castello di Rivalta is different from the castles I've visited before from the very first moment. It's actually a complex of buildings, among which the castle is the central one. Apart from it there is a church and some other buildings that house two restaurants, a bar, a Museum and some living quarters. The whole complex is very picturesque and you can feel it has a soul. AS for the castle visit, on the day when we visited, there were only four tours at four time slots, and you can't visit on your own, so you'd better check it before coming. The tour was only available in Italian and there was no info in English, so if you are interested in the history and the description of the rooms, you should find it online and bring it with you. The rooms are very well kept and you get to see many of them. My highlight was the kitchen fully equipped with ancient cooking equipment.

One of the many treasures of beautiful Piacenza Apennines. Untouched by tourism.We have been visiting Rivalta for many years and it makes a lovely break with the children. Our cousins were married there so it holds special memories for us.

The "Locanda del Falco", "inn of the hawk" is one of the best restaurants with traditional cuisine of the province of Piacenza and the village appears as one of the finest ever seen, so I expected to find wonders inside the castle.Unfortunately, they don't show you the wonders tha certainly are inside, you can only imagine them by the desciption.Probably the euphoria caused by the excellent lunch made me see a different reality, where the description of the "game of war" , made on a modern pool table and surrounded by three on purpose uncomfortable sofas to prevent players to fall were asleep made me reflect on the human misery and the obvious, unanswered question was: " if it was so boring, why did they play ? "In other rooms they showed us remakes with small traces of the past and the access to the rooms closed to visitors. The story of the key to the city of Piacenza granting incomes to the earls for over 700 years immediately made me think of the French Revolution or , more modestly, to the fact that the policy of the house is still the same,imposing a price of admission three times more expensive of the one of the much more fascinating " palazzo Farnese "I was caught by a sudden wish to run away, not fulfilled because of the impossibility to find the way out and I was forced to listen to the ghost tale once again , here told without a shred of irony, where the sinister figure was the butler who dared to rebel against the "Jus primae noctis" The visit ended, I think the before the scheduled time because of my uncontrolled reaction, with a visit to the cellars, old structure intact containing, apart from some remnant of smashed old wooden barrels, two rows of brand new "barrique" barrels. From what I see in other reviews I can state that the imagination and manipulated feelings makes things appear different from what you actually see. In a wonderful day, among wonderful old (maybe disagreeing) friends, I've only seen a beautiful landscape, a beautiful village but to enjoy it all I do not need someone to explain to me how and why I should enjoy, I surely enjoyed I myself, with ghosts or not.

Castello di Rivalta is not just a castle, it is a complete walled village or borgo (Borgo di Rivalta). Dating to the early medieval period, the small village now consists of craft shops, a fantastic salumeria, restaurant and café, a very old church, a museum, resort hotel and, of course, the Castello di Rivalta with its beautiful grounds and intriguing, elegant interior - including dungeon, wine cellar and tower. The province of Piacenza has many such castles and borgos. However, in my opinion this is one of the most enchanting.

Please trust us. This castello was one of our very favorite experiences, so I'm going to offer you my best advice.- We found this on a website for historic hotels in Italy, which appears to have morphed into a different name.- We traveled by train from Milan and took a taxi from Piacenza. Easy. Made no extra stops in Piacenza.- Our "typical room" was extraordinary. High quality, lovely linens, everything perfect.- The castello is fantastic and a wonderful extra dimension from visiting other sites in Italy like Venice, Milan, Firenza... One might imagine being a Duc and his family from days gone by.- The castello has two FANTASTIC museums that we still talk about: the military costumes and the battle museum. We couldn't believe we were seeing artifacts from the last naval battle from human drawn barges.- There is a very nice restaurant next door, but on the other side there is a charming, local "pizza" place that was great to watch local friends meet and play cards on a rotating basis.- There is not a town atmosphere, but the remnants of a small village next to a castello. - Fabulous!- This was a train-based journey for us. Our next stop was Firenza.

It's a romantic place, distant from the autostrada. You can cycle to it and enjoy a hotel and 3-4 restaurants in it.

Se passate in questa zona vale la pena visitare questo incantevole castello immerso nel verde della val trebbia e poi proseguire per una gita.Inoltre ci sono ben 2 fantastici ristoranti molto eleganti e raffinati dove poter gustare piatti piacentini.

Il castello di Rivalta è visitabile, preferibilmente previa prenotazione per i gruppi. Si viene accompagnati da una guida che Vi permetterà di apprezzare le bellezze di questo casello, facendo un piccolo salto nel passato. Il castello è abitato dai proprietari, e quindi avrete modo di vivere la visita da un punto di vista diverso rispetto al solito.Consigliabile

Ho avuto il piacere di passare in questo castello dal fascino antico due giorni per la convention FIAPR 2015. Sicuramente un luogo da visitare.

Mangiare bene in un castello, si può volere di più? Adatto sia per una cena romantica che per cena di lavoro o con gli amici in una atmosfera elegante e di classe

Comodo parcheggio per il camper vicino al castello, guida competente, all'interno bellissimi arredie e museo delle uniformi militari, giro lungo ed esauriente, consigliato.

Bello consigliato comodo anche per arrivare in camper dato l'ampio parcheggio adiacente. Museo interno con collezione di antiche divise militari.

Sembra che il tempo si sia fermato! L'ambiente del castello conservato magnificamente, la cortesia della guida, che ci ha accompagnato in esclusiva, eccezionale, l'atmosfera che fa si che il tempo si fermi ad un epoca ormai quasi dimenticata, ne fanno un luogo da visitare e da imprimere nella mente.

Il castello l'ho visitato varie volte. Ho anche pranzato in uno dei due ristoranti presenti all'interno. Si presenta su una rocca. Sinceramente, nel raggio di molti km non si vedono colline o rocche ma quando si arriva a Rivalta il Castello è sopraelevato rispetto alla strada. E si presenta Maestoso agli occhi del turista.Internamente non è molto grande. Vi è un piccolo borgo con una salumeria, un ristorante, un bar, un hotel con ristorante, un gelateria e un negozio di articoli di equitazione.Un luogo senza tempo! Bello! Visita consigliata.