The Parella Castle, as we can appreciate it today, is the result of various building phases that followed each other throughout the centuries.
Initially a shelter and later a fortified barrier to collect tolls during Medieval times, in the renaissance era it was subject to the most important transformation work of Alexy I of the San Martino di Parella House. Thanks to Alessio I in fact the castle lost its military function, it is amplified and enriched with precious frescos that can still be appreciate in the numerous rooms.
It remain property of the San Martino family, with the death of Alessio III in 1801 the castle passed to the heirs in usufruct and subsequently to numerous owners, nobles and bourgeois, to the french cloistered nuns of “the Visitation”, the White Fathers missionaries of Africa, who established their seminary there. In 1962 the property passed on to a private family that kept it until 2000 when, as a result of a further ownership change, the castle was left in neglect and abandonment.