From the height of its 602 metres the village dominates the surrounding territory. A hamlet of the municipality of Acquapendente, it was founded in the early Middle Ages around a watchtower positioned at the highest point of the Alfina Plateau. Its origins date back to Desiderio, the last king of the Lombards. Then the Monaldeschi family from Orvieto and its Cervara branch were the Lords of the Castle.
The castle passed, by way of inheritance, to the Marquises Bourbon del Monte following the marriage of Gia’ Mattia del Monte with Anna Maria Monaldeschi, in the second half of the seventeenth century.
The manor has undergone various changes over the centuries: the last "restoration", entrusted to the Sienese architect Giuseppe Partini by the banker Edoardo Cahen at the end of the nineteenth century, saw it take on this sober and monumental appearance. Entirely covered in dark grey Bagnoregio stone, it hides the Renaissance elements that were present at the time, giving it this neo-Gothic appearance and transforming it into a fairy-tale residence with an enchanted wood, the Bosco del Sasseto, where Marquis Cahen had himself buried in the artistic mausoleum.
Edoardo was succeeded by his son Teofilo Rodolfo Cahen, who continued the renovation work, furnishing the castle with extreme refinement and creating a large garden above the wood.
The landscaping of the wood of Sasseto and the design of the castle gardens are the work of Henri and Achille Duchêne.
Torre Alfina has recently been recognized as one of the most beautiful villages in Italy.
