Built in the 15th century by Ferdinand I of Aragon, the castle of Pizzo is characterized by two cylindrical corner towers. The coaming tower is of Angevin origin and dates back to 1380. It has gone down in history as the Castle of Murat, since Joachim Murat, King of Naples and brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte, was imprisoned there after the failed attempt to regain the Kingdom of Naples, trying to raise the population against Ferdinand IV of Bourbon. He left Ajaccio to land in Salerno and was hijacked by a storm in Calabria, where he landed on 8 October 1815 in the small port of Pizzo. Intercepted by the Bourbon Gendarmerie, Murat was arrested, imprisoned in the castle jails and sentenced to death, the maximum penalty for those who had committed revolutionary acts, according to the Criminal Code that he himself had promulgated. Facing the firing squad, which was to shoot him on October 13, 1815, he behaved with great firmness, refusing to be blindfolded and inviting the soldiers to save face and aim for the heart.
