Castello e Torre Artus di Maddaloni
Maddaloni (CE)
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The story
You climb from the old town by stairways and stone portals, past votive shrines wedged into the walls, up to the two Norman towers keeping watch over the plain. Below, cisterns dug into the dark.
Access
FREE climb; interiors open only occasionally
More gems in Maddaloni
- Museums
Museo Archeologico dell'Antica Calatia
Maddaloni (CE)
Inside a residence of the Carafa family sleeps the vanished city of Calatia: grave goods from the 8th century BC and an immersive room where the paving stones of the Appia light up beneath your feet as you walk towards Rome.
- Museums
Museo Archeologico di Calatia
Maddaloni (CE)
In Maddaloni, the grave goods from the necropolises of ancient Calatia, a city along the Via Appia.
More gems: Castles
◆ CastlesCastel Capuano
zona Garibaldi
An old Norman castle that for four centuries served as the courthouse of Naples: here justice held session in frescoed halls, in the shadow of nearby Porta Capuana.
◆ CastlesPalazzo Donn'Anna
Posillipo
The unfinished seventeenth-century palace juts sheer over the water, dark and labyrinthine: through its empty rooms legend has the shadow of Donn'Anna still wandering.
CastlesCasina Vanvitelliana
Lago Fusaro, Bacoli
An octagonal pavilion that seems to float on Lago Fusaro, a Bourbon hunting lodge reached by a little bridge, among reflections and morning mists.
◆ CastlesPalazzo d'Avalos (ex carcere)
Terra Murata
First the palace of the d'Avalos family, then a prison until the late twentieth century: the empty cells command Terra Murata, suspended between the memory of the inmates and the silence that lives there now.
CastlesCastello Aragonese
Ischia Ponte
A fortress on a rocky islet tied to Ischia by a stone causeway, layered with millennia of history, the gaze ranging over the bay between walls, courtyards and gardens.
- ◆ Castles
Palazzo Sansevero
P.za San Domenico Maggiore
On the corner of piazza San Domenico the palace of the princes of Sangro still carries the echo of the night when Gesualdo surprised and killed Maria d'Avalos and her lover.