Ceremony

The Medieval Castle of Crecchio

The day before yesterday afternoon we went to Crecchio to look closely at the places where we think we do the religious ceremony. In fact I already knew that the hall of the ducal castle, used as a ceremonial hall, It is very small, are only 30 sq.m., but I wanted to watch in person.

The place is beautiful, the entry of the castle with garden, the stairs to board, the museum of Byzantine art and early medieval interior, but the room is too small. I talked to the lady who gave me all the explanations and left me the phone number in case I thought of it there. He told me that many people are celebrating the wedding in the atrium inside the castle, but my being in March is still cold. The interiors are all in rough brick, very typical. We climbed up the tower via a spiral staircase brick narrow, and I was dying for the claustrophobic, but on top the view is amazing.

Some historical information

The Castle, presumably built in the thirteenth century. around a more ancient watchtower, this “olive”, He began as a fortress and was later transformed into a residence.

The article consists of four buildings that define a quadrangle, open porch on two sides and characterized the four corner towers.

In September 1943, Vittorio Emanuele III took refuge in the castle before embarking from the port of Ortona. The castle, after successive transformations of the nineteenth and twentieth century, It was damaged during the last war and was recently the object of radical restoration; currently it houses the Museum of Abruzzo Byzantine and early medieval.

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Just outside the castle, always on display dell'addetta, we covered only 200 mt in the medieval village of the country, to arrive at the old deconsecrated church of Santa Maria da Feet. And that's where we had the light

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