Castello Macchiaroli
Teggiano (SA)
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At Teggiano the Sanseverino castle, now Macchiaroli, withstood the Aragonese siege during the barons' conspiracy, still dominating the Vallo di Diano.
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History & archaeologyTeggiano
Teggiano
A medieval borgo (old village) perched above the Vallo di Diano, a maze of alleys and churches, with the Castello Macchiaroli still guarding the memory of the barons' conspiracy.
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Castello di Teggiano
Teggiano (SA)
Overlooking the Vallo di Diano, the borgo (old village) of Teggiano keeps its walls, bell towers and the Sanseverino castle, stage in the fifteenth century of the barons' conspiracy against the king of Naples.
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Borgo di Teggiano
Teggiano (SA)
Perched over the Vallo di Diano, the borgo (old village) keeps a castle and a tangle of churches and alleys that come back to life each late summer in a medieval banquet.
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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.
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.
CastlesVilla Lysis (Fersen)
Capri
Built in 1905 by the poet Fersen and dedicated to love and to sorrow, an Art Nouveau villa among the pines, with a Latin inscription at the entrance and the opium room hidden below.
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.