Castello di Porcareccia

The castle of Porcareccia is a small cluster of houses dating back to the late sixteenth century, located in Rome in the Casalotti area. The ancient castle, built on a rocky spur and which in the past had a lookout tower now disappeared, takes its name from "porcaritia", a place for raising pigs and wild boars. The presence of a castle in this locality has been known since 1002 (from a plaque preserved in the church of Santa Lucia della Tinta), the year in which the Porcareccia estate was entrusted to the monks of Monte Brianzo, in the Ponte district. An act by Pope Celestine III from 1192 refers to the entrustment of the agricultural land to the canons of via delle Botteghe Oscure. Finally, with a third act by Pope Innocent III (early 13th century), the possession passed to the Hospitaller Order of Santo Spirito.