Castello del Buonconsiglio monumenti e collezioni provinciali

Torre del Falco

The Torre del Falco is reached by following the walkway of the eastern walls that leads to the Torre Aquila above the Porta d’Aquila. It was most probably built by Prince-Bishop George of Liechtenstein at the same time as the reconstruction of the Torre Aquila, soon after 1390.

The frescoes that cover the walls of the Torre del Falco, date back to the 1530s, and are dedicated to hunting themes, one of the preferred pastimes of the noble class. Elegant figures occupy seemingly northern landscapes, heavily wooded with limpid expanses of water, where armed hunters on foot or on horseback chase after boars, bears, chamois and badgers while fishermen cast their nets. On the western wall is a representation of the city of Salzburg before the construction of its current Baroque-style cathedral. The Torre del Falco frescoes, attributed to the painter Hans Bocksberger, are one of the major iconographic documentation, in the Trentino, of German landscape painting relative to hunting and courtly life.

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