CASTELLO MURAT

The castle of Pizzo was built by Ferdinand I of Aragon in the 15th century. The building stands steeply on the sea on one side and surrounded by a deep ditch on the other. Its two large cylindrical towers served more to control the area than to defend it. It was in one of them that Napoleon Bonaparte's brother-in-law, Joachim Murat, was shot on 13 October 1815, when he was arrested in his desperate attempt to regain the kingdom of Naples but betrayed by one of his own. You will be able to visit the cell in which he wrote a last letter to his wife, Caroline.