The Palazzo Ducale was erected by the Norman, Drogone, around 1045. Built on the site of an ancient Roman fortress, which was enlarged by Fredrik II Hohenstaufen, and placed in the upper part of the village, it looks more like a castle than a palace. Every feudal lord who succeeded Fredrik II changed it and it gradually became an elegant aristocratic mansion instead of a structure for defence. Until 1961 the descendants of the Guevaras inhabited it, and during the 1600s it was considered one of the most magnificent aristocratic mansions in the whole of Southern Italy.
