Located three kilometers from Cuglieri on the road connecting Montiferru with Marghine, the fortress occupied the extreme southern limit of the giudicato of Logudoro, with the function of defending and safeguarding the borders of the kingdom. It is said to have been built by Ichthocorre, brother of Judge Barisone II. The castle first appears documentally attested in 1196, in body of the treaty between the consuls of Pisa and Judge Constantine. Between 1263 and 1267 it figures among the properties that the judge of Arborea Mariano II had seized. In 1388, in the agreements between King John I of Aragon and Eleanor of Arborea, its castellan, Barisone Barichi, was among the representatives of the curatoria of Montiferru, which participated with all its villas in the signing of the peace treaty. The castle remained in the hands of the Arborensian judges until 1410, when it came under the direct control of the crown of Aragon. Today, sections of the perimeter wall and tower survive, including within them the cisterns that supplied water to the military garrisons guarding the fortification.
