History, fascination and legends. This is what you will find visiting this wonderful Castle,situated near Mel.
Erected in a strategic position,in order to control a Roman street, probably the Via Claudia Augusta or a variation of that.
In the Age of the barbarian invasions it became very important as it was the mainstay of the local system of defence, that guaranteed the connections between Feltre and Ceneda
Affascinating is also one of the Castle's legends that tells about Gianserico, the mysterious protagonist and man of confidence of Amalasunta Queen's of the Goths,that escaped with the handmaid Eudosia when his father died, after a conspiracy with Teodato, cousin of Amalasunta.The two lovers protected themselves in this manor, where they conceived two twins from which the name "castrum zumellarum" (the latin name of twins) comes from.
