Torre Astura
| Torre Astura | ||
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 Torre Astura with remains of the ancient port |
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| Creation time : | 10th century at the latest | |
| Conservation status: | well preserved | |
| Place: | Nettuno | |
| Geographical location | 41 ° 24 ′ 28 " N , 12 ° 45 ′ 53" E | |
| Height: | 0 m slm | |
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The Torre Astura is a medieval castle on the Tyrrhenian Sea in the municipality of Nettuno , Lazio region .
Previous buildings
In ancient times, the settlement of Astura was located near the castle at the mouth of the river of the same name. During the imperial era, a villa was built on the mainland in front of today's castle. The moles of the port belonging to this property, which was probably used until the Middle Ages, can still be seen clearly in the sea.
history
After antiquity, Astura does not appear again in documentary form until 987, when the territory was donated by Benedict of Tusculum to the monastery of Sant'Alessio in Rome . But it soon came under the control of the Frangipane , who called themselves Lords of Astura from 1141 onwards.
In September the last Hohenstaufen king, Konradin , tried to disembark from Astura to Pisa after the lost battle at Tagliacozzo . However, he was arrested by Giovanni Frangipane, actually a feudal man of the Hohenstaufen, and handed over to his opponent Karl von Anjou , who had Conradin beheaded on October 29, 1268 in Naples . This ended the rule of the Hohenstaufen in Italy.
After the Frangipane, various noble families in possession of the castle broke away. In the 16th century, the Colonna rebuilt the castle to its current state.
Today the castle is in a military area, which means that access is not possible. However, due to this fact the coast was spared from urban sprawl.
In 2005, the Provincial Government of Rome applied for the Torre Astura to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List .
literature
- The Tower of Astura - A place of disaster in the earlier German imperial history . In: The Gazebo . Issue 25, 1878, pp. 413 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
- Ferdinand Gregorovius: Idylls from the Latin bank. Historical landscapes from the area around Rome including Torre Astura with the poem The Tower Astura .
Web links
- The ancient port
- N. Purcell, DARMC, R. Talbert, S. Gillies, T. Elliott, J. Becker: Places: 432703 (Astura) . Pleiades. Retrieved on July 12, 2015 12:46 pm.
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Hülsen : Astura 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplement I, Stuttgart 1903, column 156.
- ^ Ferdinand Gregorovius : Wanderjahre in Italien in the Gutenberg-DE Beck project, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42803-7
- ↑ The Tower of Astura - A place of disaster in the older German imperial history . In: The Gazebo . Issue 25, 1878, pp. 413 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
- ↑ Province of Rome ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ; PDF) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
