During the reign of Robert of Anjou, the Castle became a center of culture where artists, doctors and writers including Giotto, Petrarch and Boccaccio ... More
During the reign of Robert of Anjou, the Castle became a center of culture where artists, doctors and writers including Giotto, Petrarch and Boccaccio stayed. The Angevins were succeeded by the Aragonese with Alfonso I, who following the choice of his predecessors, fixed his royal residence in Castel Nuovo starting the reconstruction work and raising outside, between the Torre di Mezzo and that of Guardia, the grandiose Arc de Triomphe to celebrate his victorious entry into the city of Naples.
With the Aragonese we witness the transition from the medieval castle-palace to the fortress of the modern age, adapted to the new war needs and the area around the Castle loses the residential character it had with the Angevins. The structure of the Aragonese building is certainly more massive than the Angevin one and reflects quite faithfully the current one, resulting from the rehabilitation works of the early years of this century.
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