When to turn fiction in costume, it is necessary to find the most suitable settings, and in this our country certainly comes to the rescue of the authors, given the great variety it can offer, thanks to the historical structures that embellish almost any Italian town. In particular, there is a fantastic fairy-tale castle which was the backdrop to a great love story, protagonist of a very famous Mediaset television series.
A great success for Canale 5, which aired for many years, catalyzing millions of viewers with each episode, and which launched the career of two actors who are today among the best known on the Italian scene, interpreters of the splendid couple at the center of the events of the fiction.
This fairytale castle was the location of a famous Mediaset fiction. Here’s which one
Even today there are many spectators who well remember the plot of the “feuilletton” set in the eighteenth century, and the replicas continue to grind more than satisfactory ratings. Let’s talk about Elisha the Rivombrosa, a very famous TV series much loved by Canale 5 viewers. What not everyone knows is that the splendid castle of Agliè, already the setting for other series such as Maria Josè and The beauty and the Beast. It is a structure whose construction began in the 12th century, and which then continued almost four centuries later by the hand of thearchitect Amedeo di Castellamontewho arranged the facade on the garden, the courtyard and the two galleries.
Elisha the Rivombrosa
The Counts of San Martino, in 1764, therefore decided to sell the property to the Savoys, who decided to include it in the estates of the Duke of Chiablese Benedetto Maria Maurizio di Savoia, which then proceeded to further renovations. At the time of the Napoleonic occupation, then, the castle became a shelter for beggars, with the hectares of land given to private individuals or used for agriculture. Therefore, starting from the following years, the descendants of the House of Savoy used it often and willingly, to the point that in 1887 a railway station dedicated to them was set up, that of Ozegna, dedicated precisely to the royals who wished to reach the castle and remained active until 1986.
Over the last few decades, then, as has already been the case for some time in historic English homes, for example, the castle has been used for the filming of several television or cinema productions, and Agliè has remained known to the most attentive viewers for being the location and the frame of the great love between Elisa Scalzi and the charming Count Ristori of Rivombrosawho, despite the girl’s humble origins, will not hesitate to lose his head for her.
Elisha the Rivombrosa
A fiction that has mixed with reality, given that the two interpreters, or Vittoria Puccini and Alessandro Preziosi, just during the filming of the series they fell madly in love and were a steady couple until 2010, also having a daughter together. The fiction, which aired from 2003 to 2005 and was followed by a less successful sequel, enthralled millions of viewers, resulting in one of Mediaset’s great successes.
Success which in turn involved a large part of choral cast of fictionin particular the two main protagonists, who since then have experienced a very extensive notoriety and which has allowed them to become two of the most well-known and loved faces on the cinematic scene and beyond.
2023-08-28 07:35:45
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