The baptistery of Pisa, dedicated to St. John the Baptist (Battistero di San Giovanni Battista in Italian) stands in Piazza del Duomo in Pisa , near Campo Santo and the Campanile and not far from the Tower of Pisa. The building was begun in the mid-twelfth century : in 1153 which corresponded to the year […]
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The birth of the church of San Pietro in Ponte Messa of Pennabilli dates back to the twelfth century, but some documents testify its existence from 912. In ancient times, it was the site of a small Roman colony (the basis is clearly a Roman altar stone). The Roman village of Messa was a strategic […]
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An ancient tradition attributes to the castle 365 rooms , one for each day of the year. Assigned from Federico II to Gentile Petruro and then by the Anjou to Poncellis, from the fifteenth century the city of Brienza has its history closely linked to the family of Caracciolo who settled permanently in the castle […]
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The Swabian castle of Termoli characterizes the image of the village of the old city of Termoli. Its construction dates back approximately to the XIII century, a period in which Frederick II of Swabia designed a system of fortification of borders of southeast of Italy and Sicily.
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Saint Elmo Castle (Castel Sant’Elmo in Italian) is a medieval castle, now a museum, located on the hill of Vomero, Naples next to the Charterhouse of San Martino. It was once called Paturcium and stands in the place where there was, in the tenth century, a church dedicated to St. Erasmus (hence Eramo , Ermo […]
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