Kamerlengo Castle
Venetian city-castle of towers and thick stone walls, raised after a two-month siege to hold a fortress governor over a hostile town.
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This guide to Kamerlengo Castle near Split opens with a Trogir legend about a Venetian governor who reportedly never spoke again, and nobody in town could say why. It traces the fortress itself, built between 1420 and 1437 after Venice took Trogir following a siege of nearly two months, and the camerlengo, or chamberlain, whose title is the only name the castle still carries. You'll hear how local storytelling fills in a romance between the governor and a Trogir girl named Zora, his arranged marriage to a noblewoman named Orsola Gatti, and the daughter the couple later had. Look up at walls built to keep Trogir's own townspeople out, and you're looking at a garrison town's version of its rulers' private lives.
This audio guide was created using AI.