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The Aragonese Castle was born on a small island of rock trachytic attached to the island of Ischia off a bridge about 200 yards of masonry. It is accessible by mule track or by a modern elevator built in the late '70s. The trail is developed, for the first leg, in a tunnel dug in the rock (by the will of Alfonso I of Aragon in the mid-fifteenth century) and then go outdoors to reach the highest point is located where the Male. From this main road if they depart other children who are the buildings and gardens of the castle.The elevator reaches the 60 meters instead. s.l.m. and its path is completely built inside the rock. The built covers a small part of the total area occupied mostly by farmland and ruins, what was the character portrayed densely built iconography eighteenth century was largely erased by the war of the early nineteenth century, which was followed long years of neglect. Only the early twentieth century began a systematic campaign of restorations in progress, which has returned and continues to give back dignity to this impressive architectural monument. Indisputable dominant image of the castle are the shapes of the royal residence, known as Male (not visiting), and placed on the highest point of the north east, and the dome of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, counterpoint throughout the central island . Effective mediation between the rocky ridges and the part is built ramparts that wraps around the Castle for three quarters of its perimeter strongly characterizes the whole.

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The first fort was built in 474 BC Greek from Syracuse Hiero I, came to the aid of Cumani in the war against Tirreni. Following the victorious battle, which took place today in the waters off the town of Lacco Ameno, Hiero I got in return the island of Ischia and the Castle. In 315 BC the Romans founded the city of Ischia Aenaria and, most likely, used the castle as a defensive fort and built some housescastl aragonese. In the centuries after the looting and the long domination of the Visigoths, Vandals, Goths, Arabs, Normans, Swabians and completely transformed the Angevin Fortress Hieron. The eruption of Mount Trippodi, which occurred in 1301, represented a significant boost to the development of the settlement on the Castle: The Ischia took refuge on the rock that provided security and peace of mind and gave life to a real town. In 1441 Alfonso of Aragon rebuilt the old male of Angevin, joined the island to the island increased with an artificial bridge and built strong walls and fortifications, in which almost all the people of Ischia found refuge and protection against to the pirates. The heyday for the Castle occurred in the late sixteenth century when the fortress housed 1892 families, as well as the Convent of the Poor Clares, the Basilian Abbey of Greece, the Bishop and the Chapter Seminar, the Prince with the garrison. There were 13 churches, of which seven parishes. Around 1750, when the danger of pirates, people are looking more comfortable stay in various towns of the island of Ischia in search of new land to cultivate and lead to better fishing activity. In 1809 the English besieged the castle, held by the French, and shelled to destroy almost completely. In 1823 Ferdinand I, King of Naples, he sent away the last 30 inhabitants and reduced the Castle as a place of punishment for convicts. In 1851 he used it as a political prison for those men who were opposed to the power of the Bourbons. In 1860, with the arrival of Garibaldi in Naples, Ischia political prison was closed and joined to the Kingdom of Italy. The June 8, 1912 the Administration of State Property, by private treaty, auction began in the Castello Aragonese: from that moment the rock is in the hands of individuals who look after the restoration and management. aragona palace castle