Paratico

Paratico is a city and comune within the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, Italy. It is located on the southwestern cease of Lake Iseo. Paratico lies at Franciacorta's severe western border, in an outstanding position overlooking Lake Iseo. The location name had already made its appearance within the year 975, whilst the Long bard Erberto donated to his nephew Rotepaldo some of his houses, amongst which, Paratico. Its beyond strategic significance is attested through the impressive ruins of the effective castello Lintier, placed on a hill pinnacle and commanding a view all over the surrounding landscape.

The fortress turned into in all likelihood constructed in the 13th century, possibly at the foundations of an older castle, relationship lower back to 1007. It rises on a solitary area, ideal to control the outlet of the Oglio River from Lake Iseo, and to survey the roads main to the plain and to Bergamo. The Lintier family, in the 15th century, had already spread into several branches they sided with the Ghibellines, and owned many houses, each in Paratico and Turbinate, inclusive of a few stone quarries. According to the Chronicle of the Lintier de Paratico own family, written in 1600, Dante Alighieri stayed on the fortress in 1311.