Castello aragonese

Castello aragonese is a Renaissance fortress in Ortona, Province of Chieti. The first constructing dates returned to 1492. The Aragonese own family built it over the old Caldora shape of the 14th century. This shape, but, dates back to the 13^th century Anglican era. According to the same hypothesis, Giacomo Cavuto ought to have strengthened the castle that might were pre-existent. In the 15^th century there were some diversifications and partial reconstructions of a pre-present plant.

The castle become protecting until the seventeenth century whilst it changed into bought through the Baglioni circle of relatives as a noble residence. A gentile palace was built inside the walls, which in the nineteenth century fell abandoned. Since then the fortress changed into used as a workshop and powder. In 1943 during the Battle of Ortona, the citadel was hit via German bombs and American grenades. The gunpowder stored inside made the structure explode, everywhere in the pinnacle of the walls and the noble palace skyrocketed. In '46, a landslide destroyed nearly half of of the fortress, the one dealing with the sea from the tuff cliff.