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CASTELLO DI PAVONE
10081 Pavone Canavese (TO)
tel. (0039) 0125-672111
fax (0039) 0125-672114
www.castellodipavone.com
info@castellodipavone.com

This marvellous castle offers a great emotion to its visitors with its fascinating and poetical aspect.

The 'Castello di Pavone' is considered as one of the most beautiful monuments of the artistic heritage of our Country. The photographic images cannot portray its natural beauty and its fairy-tale and spectacular effects. Its strong and fabulous exterior walls have been built between the IX and the XIV century; in the inner courtyard stands a beautiful Romanesque little Church, built in the 850 ,with its two Roman tombs which dates back to the 4th and 5th century b.C., built for the two ancestors. 

The castle boasts a suggestive interior courtyard paved with carved stones and a beautiful mistery well. The suggestive architecture which surrounds the courtyard is fascinating. It has been built as a fortress to protect the ways from the north-west side; it is surrounded by exceptional and majestic double boundary walls that protected the castle during the centuries. It majestically overlooks the little village called Pavone, dominating it with its spectacular dimensions and fascinating those people which can observe it. 

This castle was owned and ruled by different important families, such as the houses of King Arduino, of the Bishop of Ivrea, Ottone , Savoia and its history is famous to be a lucky one. At the end of 1800 the castle has been skilfully restored by the famous Alfredo D’Andrade. In 1992 the works of restoration continued, thanks to the Giodice family, and the castle regained its antique magnificence. 

Nowadays it offers the best comforts and the most modern technologies to accommodate the most exigent customers with a delightful hospitality. 

The hotel, rigorously four stars, offers very charming rooms and suites. The furniture have been suitably chosen to guarantee an unforgettable warm and delicious hospitality. 

Equipped with the best conveniences such as mini-bar service, colour TV with satellite antenna and air conditioning for a pleasant and memorable stay. A business affair centre is on hand of our guests; it allows to have an Internet access, a fax service and a multilingual secretarial staff. 

The Restaurant

The restaurant, with its modern equipment, offers a very refined cuisine, rich of the best quality of Piedmontese and Mediterranean dishes. It can accommodates up to 800 guests and is divided into quiet and wonderful aristocratic dining-rooms. 

All the dining-rooms are skilfully decorated, elegant and exceptionally charming. A dinner, a wedding or a business meeting can assume a different importance and offer to the guests new sensations and unforgettable images you can hardly prove in other places, with an unexpected reply in image, credibility, authoritativeness and good taste. 

In this restaurant everything is extremely cared, to start from the comfortable and beautiful Savonarola chairs made with solid wood and painted with medieval ornaments; original persian carpets; the porcelains; the crystals and the beautiful furniture; all these peculiarities make this restaurant one of the most beautiful and unforgettable place in the world.

Convention Center

The Convention Centre is placed on the Noble floor of the castle and offers small and big rooms of indescribable beauty, from 10 to 150 places each, reaching the number of 350 guests. Each ambient is perfectly warmed up and equipped with the most modern technologies. These particular rooms, rich of atmosphere, will give a special image and importance to each convention or business meeting. 

The participants will be fascinated by the environment and the meticulous organization which surround them. 

The organizer will be pleased in having an excellent reply in good image and authoritativeness, showing an image of himself as a person particularly careful and sofhisticated in his choices. This can be considered as the best recognition and gift, basic condition in business affairs and in the art of persuasion. 

How to get there 
It is very easy to reach the castle. It can be reached without abandoning the motorway from any part of Italy or Europe you leave. It is situated 500 mts. far from the Ivrea exit on the motorway from Torino towards Aosta.

The castle can be easily reached: turn right when you leave the motorway; at the first traffic light turn right towards Pavone following the numerous indication which bring you to the castle in no more than 3 or 4 minutes. 
 
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