Rocca Calascio
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 Rocca Calascio |
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| Creation time : | 11th century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Calascio | |
| Geographical location | 42 ° 19 '44 " N , 13 ° 41' 20" E | |
| Height: | 1460 m slm | |
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The Rocca Calascio is the ruin of a hilltop castle in the Italian municipality of Calascio in the province of L'Aquila . It rises inside the Abruzzo and the m with 1.460 highest, about 1,000 year-old castle of the Apennines .
The complex was later expanded into a small but strong fortress that was never besieged . A watchtower is said to have been built here as early as the 10th century .
In the years 1461 and 1703 the facility was badly damaged in very severe earthquakes. While the town of Calascio , which lies below the fortress, was rebuilt, this did not happen with the fortress. Rocca Calascio was the filming location for the final scene of the film The Day of the Falcon by Richard Donner .
literature
- Stuart Haines: Walking in Abruzzo. Cicerone, Milnthorpe 2011, ISBN 978-1-85284-576-6 , p. 79 ( online ).
Web links
Commons : Rocca Calascio - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Rocca Calascio on icastelli.it (Italian) ( Memento from April 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b S. Haines: Walking in Abruzzo. P. 79.
- ^ Andrea Tertulliani, Antonio Rossi, Luigi Cucci, Maurizio Vecchi: L'Aquila (Central Italy) Earthquakes. The Predecessors of the April 6, 2009 event. In: Historical Seismologist. November / December 2009 ( online ).
- ↑ Silvio Germano: Calascio Today ( Memento from October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Filmed in Abruzzo, the Abruzzo Film Commission ( Memento of July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )