Monte San Giovanni Campano Ducal Castle - Italy (Rating: 8.85 Votes: 220) Rate It! - Report bad link The ducal castle was built before the year one thousand, it could hold more than a thousand soldiers and it was one of the most efficient and impregnable fortresses in the centre of Italy. It was not able anyway to hold the attack of the king of France, Charles VIII in 1495.
St.Thomas Aquinas was imprisoned in the castle (1240-1242).
Today, the castle includes a very high level restaurant: Corte d'Avalos.
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Rocca Calascio (Rating: 7.75 Votes: 4) Rate It! - Report bad link at 1460 meters above sea level, a breathtaking wiew of a castle built on the mountain top, from XI to XV century, overlooking the mountains of the Gran Sasso National Park in the italian region of Abruzzo
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The Castles of Tuscany (Rating: 8.45 Votes: 278) Rate It! - Report bad link A travel through the castles, fortresses, fortifications, watchtowers, walled town of the medieval Tuscany, in the heart of Italy.
(Added: 30-Jun-1999 Hits: 3763)
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