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The Castle of Milazzo, National Monument, with an
area of over 7 hectares of which 12.070 covered by buildings stands on the
landscape of the Cape Town at the top of the ancient "Borgo". The first and
rudimentary fortifications can be dated to the second age of the stone:
Neolithic (about 4000 BC). Later with the first Greek colonizers (VIII-VIII sec.
C.) this modest agglomeration took shape and increased in role and importance,
having formed the Acropolis or "fortified city". But we must arrive at the
Roman-Byzantine period to have the next "castrum" .; The video shot at the
Castle of Milazzo on the occasion of the writing of a video work realized on
Federico De Roberto, Milazzese and writer of "The illusion", as well as the "Vicerè",
who gave the idea for a great film.
Even the Castle of Milazzo, like any
important Castle, has its ghost.
It is the ghost of a poor cloistered nun, in reality a girl in love with an
English soldier, who was forced by her father to become a nun and then was even
walled alive inside the walls of the same manor to prevent her dating with her
lover . But the girl dies and her ghost appears in the full moon evenings inside
the castle enclosure, but nobody fears the poor girl.
The video with ghost is at link http://vimeo.com/79200761
Here you can see the Castle as it appeared to the small protagonist of the novel.
Video on the ghost of the Castle, not recommended for minors and heart patients!
The ghost of the castle
In 843 the Arabs gave life to the first nucleus that still today represents the
oldest part of the Castle, a nucleus built on the Greek, Roman and Byzantine
ruins. So the Normans and Swabians built new structures, while the Aragonese
adapted the defensive system, and finally the Spaniards surrounded him with a
mighty ramparts giving it the form of a "citadel". Since then the castle has
taken the definitive form that we can still see today.The visit to the Castle
It starts, for obvious reasons from the lower part, which is the first reachable from the Renaissance walls, the last work, to gradually reach the oldest part that represents its heart. Therefore the first work that appears is the impressive Spanish Cinta whose main entrance opens under the Baluardo di S. Maria, of which some surviving structures of the ancient church of the same name of 1527 are visible (including the triumphal arch) in 1568 for the construction of the bastion. The entrance was called "of the three doors" because many closed such access to the fortress just crossed the drawbridge. The first arch of the door is from the last years of the 700; The next door that opens in the high ara walls is barred by a drawbridge thrown over a dry ditch. At the top there are the machicolations or plumbing that allowed the defenders to cast various materials. The Citadel or the Walled City was the residence of the magistrates. Defense from the South West to the North West from the mighty Spanish walls with imposing bulwarks of S. Maria and dele Isole. The construction of this wall was begun in 1529, under the emperor Charles V of Spain, by the viceroy of Sicily, Duke Ettore Pignatelli, and completed around 1575. Further altered by Suarez de Figuerosa, duke of Feria. It consists of two strong parallel and separated walls joined by a large barrel vault. Inside it were obtained cisterns, warehouses, stalls, rooms used as prisons and accesses of numerous passages or underground walkways. It presents merlons, plumbing, casemates for the bass and the crossfire of the cannons. This work is the most important and striking example of fortification in Sicily. Of the numerous buildings that are located within the walls of the citadel, today it is possible to admire the ancient Duomo and the remains of the Palazzo dei Giurati, both being restored. Among them soon you can enjoy the restoration of the Old Cathedral, now planned for the spring-summer of 2003, apart from the real Castle with the Mastio. Who writes, who has had the good fortune to enter the structure of the restoration, assures you that the visitor is stunned in front of so much beauty and grandeur. The construction of the Cathedral was undertaken in 1608 on drawings by Camillo Camillani, a Florentine from the Scuola del Michelangelo, replacing the Church of Santa Maria, owned by the City, demolished in 1568 to allow the construction of the walls of the Spanish Cinta.
The eye of Milazzo.
On a spur of the nearby medieval walls that look towards the promontory, and
down below towards the beach of the tone, where he wants the legend, Ulysses
managed to take back the sea while Polyphemus threw a rock into the water (!)
drawing, created with blocks of black lava stone, which traces the stylized form
of a "magic insect" on whose origins and functions were not missing disparate
attributions. It would seem to be the figure of the scarab with its very ancient
symbolism linked to the geo-astronomical meaning of the exact index of the
summer solstice, an expression of the esoteric mystical traditions of the
Normans and the Swabians.
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