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Lot 4x4 The Castello normanno ("Norman Castle") is a castle in Paternò, in the Province of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy. The castle was built in 1072 by Count Roger I of Sicily to protect the Simeto valley from Islamic raids. The first nucleus of the fortress was soon enlarged, and it subsequently lost its original military functions. Under Henry VI it was made the seat of the Count of Paternò, assigned to his fellow Swabian Bartholomew of Luci. Later the castle housed kings and queens, such as Henry's son Emperor Frederick II, Eleanor of Anjou and Blanche I of Navarre, as the castle had been included in the so-called Camera Reginale estates ("Queen's Chamber") by King Frederick III of Sicily. The Chamber was abolished in the 15th century, and in 1431 the castle was acquired by the Special family; until 1456 it was owned by the Moncada family. Used as a jail, in the following centuries it became increasingly decayed, until restoration work begun in the 19th century brought it back to its ancient prominence. The castle has a rectangular plan, on three floors, with a height of 34 m. Originally, it had Ghibelline-style merlons, of which today only remains can be seen. Notable is the colour effect created by the dark shade of the stones and the frames of the Gothic-style mullioned windows, in white limestone. The first-storey houses several service chambers and the Chapel of St. John, decorated with precious 13th-century frescoes. The piano nobile houses a large Weapons Hall. The king's residence was located in the upper floor. -
From the album Edifici e Monumenti Siciliani
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From the album Edifici e Monumenti Siciliani
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6x7 Lot. The Zisa is a castle in the western part of Palermo in Sicily, southern Italy. It is included in the UNESCO Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalù and Monreale World Heritage Site. The construction was begun in the 12th century by Arabian craftsmen for king William I of Sicily , and completed by his son William II. The edifice had been conceived as summer residence for the Norman kings, as a part of the large hunting resort known as Genoardo (Arabic: Jannat al-arḍ, literally "Earthly Paradise")[that included also the Cuba Sottana, the Cuba Soprana and the Uscibene palace. The Zisa is clearly inspired by Moorish architecture. The name Zisa itself derives from the Arab term al-Azīz, meaning "dear" or "splendid". [4]The same word, in Naskh script, is impressed in the entrance, according to the usual habit for the main Islamic edifices of the time. Il palazzo della Zisa (dall'arabo al-ʿAzīza, ovvero "la splendida") sorgeva fuori le mura della città di Palermo, all'interno del parco reale normanno, il Genoardo (dall'arabo Jannat al-arḍ ovvero "giardino" o "paradiso della terra"), che si estendeva con splendidi padiglioni, rigogliosi giardini e bacini d'acqua da Altofonte fino alle mura del palazzo reale. L'etimologia della Zisa ci viene spiegata da Michele Amari che, nella sua Storia dei musulmani di Sicilia così scriveva: «Guglielmo … rivaleggiando col padre … si mosse a fabbricare tal palagio che fosse più splendido e sontuoso di que' lasciatigli da Ruggiero. Il nuovo edifizio fu murato in brevissimo tempo con grande spesa e postogli il nome di al-ʿAzîz, che in bocche italiane diventò «la Zisa» e così diciamo fin oggi[3]» -
Norman Castle and Archaeological Museum of Adrano, Sicily.
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3x3 Lot. The Norman Castle of Adrano is a donjon built by the norman king Roger I of Sicily in 1071. Inside the castle is the archaeological museum with antique findings of the region. Il cosiddetto Castello Normanno di Adrano, uno dei simboli della città etnea, è una torre eretta sotto Conte Ruggero I di Sicilia, nell'XI secolo. Il castello a cui apparteneva, insieme a quelli vicini e simili di Paternò e Motta, rientrerebbe in un sistema difensivo di età normanna volto a controllare la valle del Simeto, il pieno controllo di Catania e dei passi che portavano a Troina, Regalbuto e Randazzo. In quest'ottica può essere messo in relazione con il Ponte dei Saraceni. -
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4x4 Lot for the Castle 7x7 Lot for Castle+Park 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.
