The castle rose surely on ruins of fortitude Sannitica and this is shown by the fact that, in the immediate proximities, rests exist, is pure small, of boundaries megalitiche (of the length of around 200m.) and ruins of the marvelous source of the Canala, job of the Roman legions. Besides, on the part stitches some castle (portal of entrance), a big is walled I tan of local stone with precise grooves that, probably you/he/she was set in that point like to memory of ancient fortitude Sannitica.

On the portal of entry there is a headstone, surmounted from an angel with coat of arms riportante the writing DOMINICUS DE EBULO CASTRIPIGNANI DUX ET XIII MAEIORUM Series DOMINUS Year MDCLXXXIII (Domenico Di Evoli Duke of Castropignano and thirteenth ladies of the series of the ancestors - year 1683). You construction, founded completely above rock, to peak on the valley of the Biferno you/he/she is defended and imprendibile from 3 sides: Northerly, East and West. To notice that the castle of Castropignano was not damaged by earthquakes but its order you/he/she is documented otherwise from like it is also currently from the sketch of Zacovone. The castle, called commonly building from the Latin palatium, it is datable certainly around the year 1000 or some century first. To that epoch the corpses started to be buried in the proximities of churches, rather often under of them. This gives is inferred by the fact that on the part North of the castle exists a spiazzo under which abundant rests of human bones lie. It concerns common pit with adjacent church devoted to S. Martino. This, by now destroyed, you/he/she is still remembered by ours elderly.