Monteserico Castle is situated on a hill in a strategic position for controlling commercial traffic on the Appian Way that passed nearby. First documented in 1041, the year of a famous battle between the Byzantines and the Normans, it became a domus during the Swabian period and a royal farmstead under the Angevins. The Monteserico Castle communicated with the Garagnone Castle and the Gravina Castle (commissioned by Frederick II) through signal torches to alert of approaching enemies.
Destroyed in the early 1500s, it underwent restoration in several phases from the 18th to the 19th century and has recently been the subject of restoration efforts.
In 1989, the municipality of Genzano di Lucania acquired ownership of the building.
The Château du Lude is one of the many great châteaux of the Loire Valley in France. Le Lude is the most northerly château of the Loire Valley and one of the last important historic castles in France, still inhabited by the same family for the last 260 years. The château is testimony to four centuries of French architecture, as a stronghold transformed into an elegant house during the Renaissance and the 18th century. The monument is located in the valley of Le Loir. Its gardens have evolved throughout the centuries.