Castel San Pietro is a hilltop fortress in Verona. Built in the Austrian style in the 19th century and surrounded by cypress trees, it offers panorami ... More
Castel San Pietro is a hilltop fortress in Verona. Built in the Austrian style in the 19th century and surrounded by cypress trees, it offers panoramic views of the city, including the Roman theater and the Adige river.
Via Castel San Pietro, 37129, Verona ,Italy  
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1. It takes 18min. on foot from Erbe square.
2. by Funicular
It takes 5min. from Funicolare di castel s.Pietro by Funicular railway ( a round trip of 3 euros for a person)
The Adige is an Italian river that starts in the Alps in the province of South Tyrol near the Italian border with Austria and Switzerland, flowing thr ... More
The Adige is an Italian river that starts in the Alps in the province of South Tyrol near the Italian border with Austria and Switzerland, flowing through most of Northeast Italy to the Adriatic Sea.
Torre Grossa is the tallest tower in San Gimignano, with 54 m (177 ft 2 in). It is one of the best known of Tuscany's medieval towers. It was built in ... More
Torre Grossa is the tallest tower in San Gimignano, with 54 m (177 ft 2 in). It is one of the best known of Tuscany's medieval towers. It was built in 1310.
The first news about the Rocca Maggiore dates back to 1174, when it was rebuilt following the conquest of Assisi by the imperial troops led by Christi ... More
The first news about the Rocca Maggiore dates back to 1174, when it was rebuilt following the conquest of Assisi by the imperial troops led by Christian of Mainz (1174); but perhaps it already existed in the Lombard era. It is therefore probable that – on the remains of a pre-existing fortification – the fortress was rebuilt by the Swabians, as a feudal castle: it is also said that Frederick of Swabia – the future emperor Frederick II – stayed there in his youth, a guest of Corrado Lutzen.
The fortress stands out on the hill overlooking Assisi: above its walls stands the Maschio, from which you can enjoy a wonderful view of the city and the Umbrian Valley, from Perugia to Spoleto. Since ancient times, the place where the fortress stands was considered sacred and essential to the defense of the town.
In 1198 the castle was destroyed following a popular revolt to prevent it from falling into the hands of a papal governor: not wrongly, the people of Assisi saw in it a symbol of imperial oppression.
The fortress was rebuilt in 1365 by Cardinal Egidio Albornoz (then engaged in the submission of the main cities of the peninsula) as a sighting point: a typical example of medieval military architecture came out. Since then, the fortress was the protagonist of every attempt at conquest in alternating with the government of the city of the various lords and its defensive role increased over time with changes in the structure and with the construction of towers and bastions.
After Albornoz, the fortress was enlarged and modified by Biordo Michelotti (1395-98), Piccinino (1458), Pius II (1460), Sixtus IV (1478), Paul III (1535) and assumed a truly imposing appearance. It is tradition that the top of the hill was occupied by an acropolis since ancient times, but that it was devastated in 545 by the Gothic king Totila.
In the '600, the fortress was completely abandoned to remain almost intact until our century.
The fortress wanted by Albornoz was enlarged several times with the addition of bastions, but was devastated by the population following the unification of Italy (1859).
Today it is open to more and more visitors; from its towers offers a panorama among the widest and most evocative of all Umbria: Assisi gathered at its feet, the splendid Umbrian Valley. The evocative halls host thematic reconstructions inspired by medieval life.
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The Port of Marina Piccola - Sorrento is the ideal landing place for those who want to admire the beauty of the Sorrento Peninsula from a central and ... More
The Port of Marina Piccola - Sorrento is the ideal landing place for those who want to admire the beauty of the Sorrento Peninsula from a central and privileged position.
Easily accessible from the city center and close to the renowned Piazza Tasso, the port of Marina Piccola-Sorrento is one of the best-known landing places for tourists arriving in Campania.
This is not only due to the fame of the city, but also to the fact that many of the ferries and tourist boats depart from this area to Capri and the Amalfi Coast .
The landing place consists of an inner breakwater, a smaller inner breakwater which houses a dock where pleasure boats are housed, and a quay.
Maritime traffic is intense all year round. It is therefore advisable to pay attention to other units in transit during entry and exit manoeuvres.
Even when navigating near the port area, you need to pay attention to the routes followed by tourist ferries and the boats that enter the port area and those that leave it.
The marina of Marina Piccola offers yachtsmen a wide range of services , including a food shop for replenishing the galley, a pleasure craft rental point and a taxi service.
In the immediate vicinity of the port area it is possible to find a few restaurants and a good number of bathing establishments.
The fact of being in the heart of the historic center allows you to quickly go back to the city streets and thus find supermarkets and other catering outlets, bars, hotels, shops, historical monuments and various places of interest.
Castel Sant'Elmo dominates the city of Naples from the highest point of the Vomero hill, located in Largo San Martino, from which you can enjoy a sple ... More
Castel Sant'Elmo dominates the city of Naples from the highest point of the Vomero hill, located in Largo San Martino, from which you can enjoy a splendid view of the historic center.
It is a medieval castle built around the 1300 in the same place where, in the tenth century, there was a chapel dedicated to Sant'Erasmo, from which Eramo, Ermo and then Elmo, which gave the present name of the fortress. Originally it was a Norman observation tower (called Belforte), and it was Roberto d'Angiò who commissioned the architect Tino da Camaino in 1325 to construct the Palatium castrum, whose works ended in 1343 under the reign of Giovanna I d 'Anjou.
Since then the Castle was besieged several times for its strategic position and control on the streets of Naples, and was a military target especially during the dispute between Spaniards and French for the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples. Between 1537 and 1547 Castel Sant'Ermo, later called Sant'Elmo, was rebuilt by commission of the Spanish Viceroy Don Pedro De Toledo and assumed the current six-pointed star plan.
In the 1587 a lightning struck the castle destroying the castles and military houses and the internal church. The building was then rebuilt between the 1599 and the 1610 by the architect Domenico Fontana.
Between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the castle became a prison, where the philosopher Tommaso Campanella was also a prisoner, and was the seat of revolutionary movements in the 1799, when it was taken by the people and besieged by the Republicans who proclaimed the Neapolitan Republic in the Piazza d'Armi. Castel Sant'Elmo, after the collapse of the republic, was still a prison, where Giustino Fortunato, Domenico Cirillo and Luisa Sanfelice were imprisoned, and remained a military prison until the 1952.
Only in the twentieth century 80 Castel Sant'Elmo became a structure of cultural and museum interest and from the 1982 the entire monumental complex was entrusted to the custody of the Superintendence for Artistic and Historical Heritage of Naples, open to the public in the 1988.