Rocca Calascio is a mountaintop fortress or rocca in the Province of L'Aquila in Abruzzo, Italy. At an elevation of 1,460 metres (4,790 ft), Rocca Calascio is the highest fortress in the Apennines. Rocca Calascio was the location for the final scene of Richard Donner film Ladyhawke. Sequences for The Name of the Rose and The American were also shot here. Near the fortress, at a slightly lower elevation, is Santa Maria della Pietà, an octagonal church built in the seventeenth century.

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Rocca Calascio is a mountaintop fortress or rocca in the Province of L'Aquila in Abruzzo, Italy. At an elevation of 1,460 metres (4,790 ft), Rocca Calascio is the highest fortress in the Apennines. Built of stone and masonry exclusively for military purposes and intended only to accommodate troops and never as residence for nobles, the fortress overlooks the Plain of Navelli at one of the highest points in the ancient Barony of Carapelle. Construction of the fortress started in the tenth century as a single watchtower. Rocca Calascio was the location for the final scene of Richard Donner film Ladyhawke. Sequences for The Name of the Rose and The American were also shot here. Near the fortress, at a slightly lower elevation, is Santa Maria della Pietà, an octagonal church built in the seventeenth century.

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Location: Rocca Calascio, Abruzzo, Italy
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