An inventory of 1654 mentions "the gunpowder tower, cellars, carpenters´ workshop and smithy", as well as other pertinences belonging to Castel Penede. Today, the few remaining ruins are not sufficient to allow us to imagine its complex structure. Yet it was an important manor house on 180 meters, in a strategic position guarding the only practicable pass and serving as an observation post over a vast region. Sacked by the French army of General Vendôme, it was also used during the First World War, when trenches were built in the surroundings. Today it is undergoing restoration work.
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