Puglia, Castel del Monte, Andria (Bari)
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Puglia, Castel del Monte, Andria (Bari)
- 1. PUGLIA: Castel del Monte, Andria (Bari) The castle was built directly on a rocky bank, and is well known for its octagonal shape. Eight octagonal towers are inserted on each of the eight corners. The wall curtains, built in the local calcareous stone, are marked by a string-course moulding. Eight windows with one light open on the lower floor, seven mullioned windows and only one three mullioned window. The octagonal shaped, courtyard is characterized, as the whole building, by the chromatic contrast between the colours of the utilized materials: coral crushed stone, limestone and marbles. On the first floor three French windows open, under which some jutting out elements and some holes utilized, maybe, to hold up a wooden gallery. Very likely it rendered independent the halls, otherwise all communicating in a ring route except the first and the eighth one, separated by a wall in which a small round window was probably used to communicate. The 16 halls, eight on each floor, have a trapezoidal shape and have been tiled with an ingenious technical solution. The space has been divided into a square central span, covered by a ribbed cross vault held up by semi-columns in coral crushed stone on the ground floor and trilobite marble pillars on the first floor, while the remaining triangularspaces are covered by pointed barrel vaults. The different keystones of the crosses are decorated by anthopomorphous, zoomorphous and phytomorphous elements. Frederick II and his court used to have a great care for their body according to the typical custom of the Arab culture, so beloved by the King.