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Castel del Monte is a 13th-century citadel and castle situated on a hill in Andria in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. It was built during the 1240s by the Emperor Frederick II, who had inherited the lands from his mother Constance of Sicily. In the 18th century, the castle's interior marbles and remaining furnishings were removed. It has neither a moat nor a drawbridge and some considered it never to have been intended as a defensive fortress; however, archaeological work has suggested that it originally had a curtain wall. Described by the Enciclopedia Italiana as "the most fascinating castle built by Frederick II", the site is protected as a World Heritage Site. It also appears on the Italian version of the one cent Euro coin.

 

Castel del Monte è una fortezza del XIII secolo fatta costruire dall'imperatore del Sacro Romano Impero Federico II nell'altopiano delle Murge occidentali in Puglia, nell'attuale frazione omonima del comune di Andria, a 17 km dalla città, nei pressi della località di Santa Maria del Monte, in provincia di Barletta-Andria-Trani, sulla sommità di una collina, a 540 metri s.l.m.

Inserito nell'elenco dei monumenti nazionali italiani nel 1936 (abrogato nel 2010) e in quello dei patrimoni dell'umanità dell'UNESCO nel 1996, nel 2014 è stato il trentesimo sito statale italiano più visitato, con 206.924 visitatori e un introito lordo totale di 518.960 Euro.

 


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I don't know what I'll do with it, I just know I like it.

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thank you for this unique and historic Italian building

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