Italy Apulia Gargano National parc Tremiti Islands The Fortress of San Nicola Island
Italy Apulia Gargano National parc Tremiti Islands The Fortress of San Nicola Island San Nicola is the historical, religious and administrative center of the archipelago. For the numerous traces of an ancient and glorious past, it is considered an open air museum. The Castle was built around the fifteenth century The fort, a work truly colossal, represents the last bastion of defense of the castle of the Abbey. A tall, long wall with battlements, closes the neck of the island's defensive header from North to South side on which the castle had 3 successive doors. To the right of the front wall of the fortress, cross surmounted by the coat, flanked and protected by a solid tower of the bridge, the remains of an ancient fortress built by Charles II d'Anjou, crowned on top by machicolations, opens the first of them equipped with a time the drawbridge over the deep ditch was dug along the length of the wall, about 10 meters wide, of which a remnant of the outer wall you see to the left side of the square below said "Against Pit".
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Location: Italy Apulia Gargano National Park Tremiti Island San Nicola
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