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The
construction of the Castle laughed them to the Arabic domination of
the Sicily. In the first half of XIII the century, for work of
Federico II of Svevia, the Castle was widened and rebuilt in order to
satisfy the inclinations of the emperor for the hunting and the peach.
The peculiarity of the complex, however, was its impenetrability to
the attacks of the enemies; the place where it was constructed, in
fact, is of an only roughness and, with its dirupi, it was lend well
to such defensive requirement. The
architectonic complex imposing is made up of a fencing whose perimeter
measure meters 304,59, with the towers to the four angles, for how
much in the course of the centuries has happened structural changes is
from saying that altogether the building fencing is remained the same
one of that one of the XI - XII century. To
the inside the Saracena Tower is found, from the powerful ones walls,
high 14 meters, that she is survivor to the several one you besiege
that, in the course of the centuries, they have been: furious the
battles that in XIV the century were between the armies of Roberto D'
Angiò and Peter Of Aragon and then between Ludovico Of Aragon and
follow us of Chiaromonte.
Today to the Castle of
Milazzo, place on the top of the historical center, extensions and
concerts are organized.
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