Heritage: Quart

The “Casaforte di Povil” originally belonged to the lords of Quart.

It was purchased in the second half of the fourteenth century by Jean-Michel Piquart, lord of the manor of Quart at the time and a member of the La Tour family of Courmayeur, who died during the second half of the seventeenth century. Their assets were transferred in 1680 to Carlo Filippo Perrone, baron of Quart.

What today looks like a rural house still reveals its original fortified structure and various architectural elements testify to its ancient function.
To the east, the tower has carved stone windows and an arched door.

The tower flanks the arched ogival portal at the entrance to the courtyard, which the main house looks out onto. Two carved stone windows and the door surmounted by a panel with the Piquart de La Tour coat of arms and the date 1627 are worth noting.

The castle is a set of buildings arranged within a fortified perimeter, which respects the natural contour of a difficult rocky slope.
The donjon standing on the highest point of the rock, the functional layout of individual buildings, the chapel and the winding passageways, are evidence of an early or Germanic fortified structure, although current architectural evidence point to more recent periods, as do the first narrative sources, which suggest its origins go back to the end of the 12th century (around 1185). After the death of Henry of Quart in 1377, the castle and fiefdom went to the Savoys, who sold it to Philibert Laschis in 1550, who in turn sold it almost immediately to the Balbis. In the 17th century, the castle belonged first to Count Nicholas Coardo and then to the Perrone of San Martino, who gave it the Municipality of Quart in 1800.

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