Origins of the Rivalta Castle
The first specific information about the history of the castle of Rivalta was reported in the process of partition in 1025. Emperor Henry II, in 1048, subsequently donated part of the Benedictine monastery in San Savino in Piacenza. In the following century, the main events involved were the siege and destruction and the punishment of its various owners.
Rivalta then became the property of the powerful Malaspina family.
In the following century, the Papacy and the Empire fought for controversy, and in 1255 the Marquis of Alberto Palavicino, a fierce enemy of Guelph, ordered the destruction of the fortified compounds associated with the church. Rivalta was also included in the list.
At the beginning of the fourteenth century, the castle of Rivalta appears in the documents, owned by Obizzo Landi known as Verzuso, which belongs to Landi of Cerreto. Since then, the castle and the village, surrounded by a protective border wall, have followed events and the fate of the Landy family.
In 1808 the Landy branch died in Rivalta and the Marquis of Gambaro and the castle passed to the Landy Counts branch in the Marquis of Castell in Chiavenna. Towards the end of the same century, it was later purchased by Count Carlo Zanardi Landi of Viano, whose descendants are still his companions.
