Castel Malosco

It stands in Malosco, now in the municipality of Borgo d'Anaunia, halfway between the village and Fondo. It was the seat of the lords of Malosco, ministeriales of the bishop of Trento: the rose on their coat of arms became the coat of arms of the municipality.

The first documents that probably concern it date from 1188; the name appears in 1228, when Pietro di Malosco left it in his will to his brothers Bertoldo and Enrico. Pietro was vicedominus of the Anaunia, and the castle also served as a seat of judgement. It then changed hands several times: in the fourteenth century it belonged to the Boymont, who gave it as a pledge for a debt, and from 1512 to the Neideck. Girolamo Guarienti turned it into a residence, and a stone with the coat of arms bears the date 1576; the Guarienti, counts from 1716, held it until the family died out in 1820.

Once it had passed to the Austrian state property, in 1863 it became the seat of the court of Fondo and was rebuilt for that use: the outer walls were pulled down, wider windows were opened and the entrance was moved. This is the form it has today. Here in 1892 the Futurist Fortunato Depero was born: his father worked for the Austrian administration and lived in the castle.

After the Great War it housed the magistrate's court and then the Land Register office, until the administration left it in the 1980s. In the 1990s it passed to the Provincia; in 2006 a restoration project was launched, and in 2012 the funds were allocated. The oldest part is the keep, enclosed within the square building of the sixteenth century.