Castle Giusso house on the sea is situated in Vico Equense and offers a restaurant, a seasonal outdoor swimming pool and a bar. The air-conditioned accommodation is 48 km from Salerno, and guests benefit from private parking available on site and free WiFi.

This apartment has 2 bedrooms, a kitchen with microwave, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 2 bathrooms with a bidet.

Speaking English and Italian at the reception, staff are always at hand to help.

The apartment offers a children's playground. Guests can also relax in the garden or in the shared lounge area.

Naples is 42 km from Castle Giusso house on the sea, while Sorrento is 10 km from the property. The nearest airport is Naples International, 44 km from the accommodation, and the property offers a paid airport shuttle service.

This is our guests' favourite part of Vico Equense, according to independent reviews.

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The Castle by the Sea, from which Castellammare derives its name, rises to 100 meters altitude above sea level while behind these are the imposing domes of rock (the foothills of Mount Faito) that rise vertically up to 650 m. The Castle was built to guard the narrow stretch of coast, between the inaccessible mountain and the sea,  from which the army intended to penetrate and would have been able to pass the Sorrentine Peninsula.

The name of “Castello a Mare” appears in a document for the first time in 1086 which is written proof that the Castle had already existed for some time. The Castle was built following the Byzantine style by the Duke of Sorrento, as a border fortress of his dominion. Over the centuries (from the 11th to the 15th century) it underwent various transformations, according to the evolution of different techniques of art and war. The modern aspect stems from the last transformation of 1470, aimed at strengthening the fortress against an artillery attack.

At the beginning of the 1500’s, the Castle rampart “rivellino” was added for its proximity to an external ditch full of water. The "Castrum de Stabiis ad Mare" was the foothold of a complex defensive system including amongst others, the castles of Gragnano, Lettere, and Pimonte and it had numerous defense posts deployed on the surrounding land, the most notable was erected on the shore which was connected to a walkway following the walls of the Castle that descended down to the watchtower. Similar to the New Castle (Castel Nuovo) of Naples, the Castello a Mare of Stabia is to be considered a Medieval construction, even though it was equipped for defense in the Aragonese time period: the buttresses for reinforcement of the pre-existent towers can be attributed to the XV and even to the XVI century .

In the XV century, the fortress of Castellamare was quite important for the wide range strategy and in support of the deployment of vessels and fleets at sea; in fact, it was added to the Neapolitan Chronicles from the 1400’s edited by Filangieri of Candida. The three coats of arms that Castellamare has had in the course of history, all bear the picture of the Castle. Also to be noted is the fact that the second of four cathedrals of Castellamare was situated in the domain of the fortress, where the bishops that succeeded one another, lived from the time period of 840 to 1362. At the time of the conspiracy of the Barons, the castle was handed over (October 1459), without any resistance from the Lord of the Manor, the Catalan Gaillard, to the troops of John of Anjou, son of Rene. In 1461 Gaillard himself valiantly and victoriously defended the Castle for Anjou, against Antonio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, who won against the armed Angevins at the mouth of the Sarno and had occupied the city on 23rd October.
Castellammare was a fief of the Farnese family, brought in dowry by Margaret of Habsburg, the illegitimate daughter of Charles V, in 1538 to the thirteen year old Ottavio Farnese. The prison, extracted from the base of the tower, was one of the most persuasive tools of the administration of the various governors, and its name "La Papiria" emerges from the archival documents. In the seventeenth century, Castellamare was an actual city and the Castle, outdated instrument of war, was no longer used as a fortress to protect its people from danger. It was partly due to the change of political strategies in the Viceroyalty of the Crown of Spain, which aimed at political neutralization of the feudal lords, that the Castle was abandoned.

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Castello Medioevale

The Castle, which rises to a height of about 340 meters, on St. Nicholas Hill order, was built probably in the Manso I of Amalfi after the conquest of the village Castrum Licterensis by Amalfi: the main function of the structure was to border and prevent attacks from the Gulf of Naples to the Amalfi dukedom; The castle also protected within its walls a church, some houses and several shops. With the arrival of the Normans, the fortress was expanded: in fact, were built new walls, a new port, a drawbridge and protected by a trench with archers and a short distance from the castle was built a cathedral, in Romanesque style with tuff decorations yellow and green. During the Swabian period, the fief of Letters, passed in 1263 to Riccardo Filangieri: He was responsible for the construction of the keep and a tower. With the arrival of Anjou, the castle was the protagonist in the Vespers War and was greatly expanded and structured in order to accommodate the new defensive systems: it was enlarged the walls, built a new tower on the south side, flanked by two small towers , armed with firearms and were built the hanging corridors in such a way as to connect the various walkways. During the rule of the Aragonese, lost its defensive function, was converted into a private residence and the mighty walls numerous windows were opened. Lost after whatever military function that housing, the resulting state of abandonment reduced him to a ruin: only in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century were carried out major renovation, thanks to which it was possible to recover perimeter walls and towers, bringing at least part of its former splendor.
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Castello di Lettere

Il castello medievale di Nocera Inferiore, anche definito castello del Parco, è una struttura del X secolo che sorge a Nocera Inferiore, sulla sommità della collina del Parco o collina di Sant'Andrea.

L'area, nel XIX secolo è passata in mano privata. Vi è stato realizzato l'attuale palazzo Fienga. Oggi è tornata in mano pubblica, facendo parte dei beni del comune.
La struttura originale è conosciuta sin dal 984 in un documento del Codice Diplomatico Cavese, indicato come firmitate noba nocerina de ipso Monticellum, ma il maniero risale probabilmente a epoca più antica. I ruderi del castello costituiscono una struttura trapezoidale monca di un lato, che si sviluppano intorno ad un ampio cortile (chiamato fantasiosamente: sala della Cavallerizza).

Molto suggestiva l'area detta voliera, ad ovest del castello, nella quale sono ancora in piedi tre archi gotici. Sono ancora in luce le ampie cisterne e tratti di due delle tre cinte murarie originali.

Alle spalle della torre mastio vi è una piccola area absidata, pertinente alle chiese di Santa Maria alla Torre e San Martino in unum constructe secondo le fonti. In epoca successiva la chiesa della fortezza fu dedicata a san Leone.

L'epoca angioina
Sorge sulla collina del Parco, che ospitò i nocerini che nell'alto medioevo lasciarono Nuceria per costruire la nuova città in ambiente più protetto.

Caposaldo del sistema difensivo dei Longobardi di Salerno nei confronti dei Bizantini di Napoli, il borgo che si venne a creare era difeso da un sistema a tripla cinta muraria: la prima intorno al castello; la seconda al centro della collina; la terza a difesa dell'insediamento alle sue falde.

Nella sua prima fase di vita il castello era costituito da una struttura molto semplice: una torre con un piccolo recinto. Nel 1138 fu distrutto dalle truppe di Ruggero II assieme al villaggio del borgo.

In epoca federiciana appartenne alla famiglia dei Filangieri. In quest'epoca, su di un banco di roccia calcarea, fu realizzato l'arce con una torre pentagonale circondata da un recinto quadrangolare. Ai lati di questo recinto erano presenti altre quattro torri (delle quali oggi resta solo una base).

In questi anni le stanze del castello servirono anche come prigione: vi si tenne prigioniera fino alla morte Elena degli Angeli, vedova di re Manfredi di Svevia.

In epoca angioina si ebbe il primo grande ampliamento del castello. Carlo I d'Angiò, che trascorreva spesso il suo tempo a Nocera, diede il via ai lavori di ampliamento della vecchia fortezza, facendo realizzare alcuni ambienti di carattere residenziale che diedero alla struttura la forma di un vero e proprio palazzo.

Dal 1303 si provvide anche alla risistemazione del sistema difensivo caratterizzato da una triplice cinta di mura che dalla sommità della collina scendeva fino alle falde della collina, cingendo il borgo fortificato fino al torrente detto Saltera.

In questi anni vi crebbe e poi lo possedette Carlo Martello, amico di Dante, e probabilmente vi nacque (e sicuramente vi crebbe) san Ludovico d'Angiò.

Nel '300 Giovanna I lo cedette con la Città al fiorentino Niccolò Acciaiuoli, che vi ospitò nel 1362 Giovanni Boccaccio (come ci dice lui stesso nella Epistola II).

Nel dicembre del 1381 vi fu portata prigioniera la regina Giovanna I, e vi rimase fino al 28 marzo del 1382. Qui Boccaccio erroneamente crede che la regina morì. Nella realtà la regina fu trasferita nel castello di Muro Lucano, dove perse la vita il 12 maggio di quello stesso anno.

Nel 1385 papa Urbano VI, durante la guerra per la successione a Giovanna I, vi fu assediato per alcuni mesi dalle truppe di Carlo III di Durazzo. Dal castello il papa dovette reprimere una congiura ordita contro di lui da alcuni cardinali.


Castello del Parco

Castel dell'Ovo (in English, Egg Castle) is a seaside castle in Naples, located on the former island of Megaride, now a peninsula, on the Gulf of Naples in Italy. The castle's name comes from a legend about the Roman poet Virgil, who had a reputation in the Middle Ages as a great sorcerer and predictor of the future. In the legend, Virgil put a magical egg into the foundations to support the fortifications. Had this egg been broken, the castle would have been destroyed and a series of disastrous events for Naples would have followed. The castle is located between the districts of San Ferdinando and Chiaia, facing Mergellina across the sea.
The Castel dell'Ovo is the oldest standing fortification in Naples. The island of Megaride was where Greek colonists from Cumae founded the original nucleus of the city in the 6th century BC. Its location affords it an excellent view of the Naples waterfront and the surrounding area. In the 1st century BC the Roman patrician Lucius Licinius Lucullus built the magnificent villa Castellum Lucullanum on the site. Fortified by Valentinian III in the mid-5th century, it was the site to which the last western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was exiled in 476. Eugippius founded a monastery on the site after 492.
The remains of the Roman-era structures and later fortifications were demolished by local residents in the 9th century to prevent their use by Saracen raiders. The first castle on the site was built by the Normans in the 12th century. Roger the Norman, conquering Naples in 1140, made Castel dell 'Ovo his seat. The importance of the Castel dell'Ovo began to decline when king Charles I of Anjou built a new castle, Castel Nuovo, and moved his court there. Castel dell'Ovo became the seat of the Royal Chamber and of the State Treasury. It also served as a prison. In 1191, Empress Constance of the Holy Roman Empire, daughter of Roger , was captured during her struggle with her nephew Tancred, King of Sicily for the crown of Sicily, and Sicilian Chancellor Matthew d'Ajello wrote to Tancred persuading him to lock Constance in the island Castel dell'Ovo to be better-guarded and secluded from people, and wrote to nobleman Aligerno Cottone in charge of defending Naples ordering him to "ut imperatricem in Castro Salvatoris ad mare benè custodiat" (guard the empress in "Castle of the Savior" (i. e. Castel dell'Ovo) in the sea properly). However, Constance was released the next year and finally became Queen of Sicily. In 1268, King Conradin was imprisoned here before his trial and execution. In 1381, Queen Joanna I of Naples was also imprisoned there for a time after forced to surrender to her enemy Charles of Durazzo, the future Charles III of Naples, before her assassination.

The current appearance dates from the Aragonese domination (15th century). It was struck by French and Spanish artillery during the Italian Wars; in the Neapolitan Republic of 1799 its guns were used by rebels to deter the philo-Bourbon population of the city.

After a long period of decay the site got its current appearance during an extensive renovation project started in 1975.
In the 19th century a small fishing village called Borgo Marinaro, which is still extant, developed around the castle's eastern wall. It is now known for its marina and restaurants. The castle is rectangular in plan, approximately 200 by 45 metres at its widest, with a high bastion overlooking the causeway that connects it to the shore; the causeway is more than 100 metres long and a popular location for newlyweds to have their wedding photos taken. Inside the castle walls are several buildings that are often used for exhibitions and other special events. Behind the castle there is a long promontory once probably used as a docking area. A large round tower stands outside the castle walls to the southeast.

Underwater archaeologists have discovered what appears to be a 2500-year-old harbor associated with the origins of the first Greek settlement of Paleopolis (which preceded the ancient city of Neapolis, now Naples) in the sea next to the castle. Four tunnels, a 10-foot-wide street demonstrating furrows consistent with cart traffic, and a trench which was likely built as a defensive structure for soldiers were discovered submerged immediately adjacent to the castle. The discovery was announced in March 2018, after the September 2017 identification of the original port of Neapolis.

Castel dell'Ovo

Villa Ebe (anche nota come Castello di Pizzofalcone) è una palazzina neogotica che sorge sul fianco occidentale del Monte Echia a Napoli, in cima alle antiche rampe di Pizzofalcone, nel quartiere San Ferdinando.
Storia e descrizione
Fu costruita nel 1922 secondo il gusto e lo stile vittoriano dell'architetto ed urbanista Lamont Young che, circa vent'anni prima, si occupò dell'edificazione del castello Aselmeyer. L'edificio assunse il nome di Castello Lamont e fu progettato su due scompartimenti distinti che fungevano uno (il lato di villa Ebe) come residenza personale dell'architetto napoletano, nel quale vi abitò fino alla sua scomparsa avvenuta per suicidio proprio nella villa stessa; l'altro scompartimento invece fungeva da residenza per la famiglia Astarita. Quest'ultima parte del complesso, andò definitivamente distrutta da un bombardamento degli alleati durante la seconda guerra mondiale e ciò che rimane oggi visibile dell'opera di Young è dunque solo la parte riguardante villa Ebe.[1]

Il nome originale mutò nel corso degli anni, prendendo poi quello dell'allora giovane moglie di Young (Ebe), la quale continuò a dimorarvi fino al 1970; in seguito, i suoi eredi ne alienarono la proprietà al comune di Napoli. Nel 2000 un incendio doloso la danneggiò profondamente devastandone le sale interne e distruggendo completamente l'incantevole scala elicoidale.[2] L'elemento di spicco della villa rimane pertanto la torre quadrata con contrafforti ottagonali in pietra vesuviana con finestre ad arco poste sui tre lati della stessa.[1]

Il sito da anni langue abbandonato e fino agli inizi del 2000 non ha ancora preso slancio il progetto di rivalorizzazione approvato poi solo nel 2005, ma finora mai avviato. Tale progetto immagina la villa trasformata in grande museo interattivo, sede di mostre e convegni, dedicato all'architettura liberty; si prevede, inoltre, la risistemazione della panoramica terrazza (che gode di una vista a 360° sul prospiciente golfo) e l'installazione su di essa di un moderno periscopio, secondo il modello della Torre di Tavira a Cadice.

Nonostante nel luglio 2008 la Regione Campania abbia approvato un finanziamento con fondi europei dei lavori di ristrutturazione e riutilizzo del sito per un totale di 3.350.000 euro, al 2019 la villa versa in stato di totale abbandono. 

Villa Ebe

If you have come to this page, you are looking for information on Villa Volpicelli, a structure present in Naples but not everyone is lucky enough to know or have seen with their eyes.

Located in the famous and characteristic district of Posillipo, Villa Volpicelli is now a real monumental structure, overlooking the sea, a place from which you can admire in all its beauty if you turn in the area aboard a boat.

The history of Villa Volpicelli
The first datum that shows its presence in Naples dates back to 1629, in the view of Baratta (engraver), and is recognized by its tall and magnificent cylindrical tower. In the years to come it has become a state property, and was given the nickname of 'fortino' (sometimes it was also called 'turret'). The name is taken from 1884, when Raffaele Volpicelli, a member of a noble Neapolitan family, bought the structure. He had some renovations done so that the villa was restored to its original appearance.

Today it is considered one of the most beautiful villas of Posillipo, and to give even more emphasis to the beauty of this structure, there is the wonderful garden, protected on the outside by a strong wall. It extends to the sea, and goes to touch another adjacent property, or Villa Rosebery.

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Villa Volpicelli

Castel Nuovo (English: "New Castle"), often called Maschio Angioino (Italian: "Angevin Keep"), is a medieval castle located in front of Piazza Municipio and the city hall (Palazzo San Giacomo) in central Naples, Campania, Italy. Its scenic location and imposing size makes the castle, first erected in 1279, one of the main architectural landmarks of the city. It was a royal seat for kings of Naples, Aragon and Spain until 1815.

It is the headquarters of Neapolitan Society of Homeland History and of the Naples Committee of the Institute for the History of the Italian Risorgimento. In the complex there is also the civic museum, which includes the Palatine Chapel and the museum paths on the first and second floors.
History
The origins and the dynasty of the House of Anjou
The construction of its former nucleus -today partly re-emerged following restoration and archaeological exploration work- is due to the initiative of Charles I of Anjou, who in 1266, defeated the Hohenstaufens, ascended to the throne of Sicily and established the transfer of the capital from Palermo to the city of Naples.

The presence of an external monarchy had set the town planning of Naples around the center of the royal power, constituting an alternative urban core, formed by the port and by the two main castles adjacent to it, Castel Capuano and Castel dell'Ovo. This relationship between the royal court and town planning had already manifested itself with Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, who in the 13th century, in the Swabian statute had concentrated greater attention on castles neglecting the city walls. To the two existing castles the Anjevins added the main, Castel Nuovo (Chastiau neuf), which was not just a fortification but above all his magnificent palace.

The royal residence of Naples had been until then the Castel Capuano, but the Norman ancient fortress was judged as inadequate to the function and the king wanted to build a new castle near the sea.

The project was designed by the French architect Pierre de Chaulnes, the construction of the Castrum Novum started in 1279 to finish just three years later, a very short time considering the techniques of construction of the period and the overall size of the work. However, the king never lived there: following the War of the Sicilian Vespers, which cost to the House of Anjou the crown of Sicily, conquered by Peter III of Aragon and other events, the new palace remained unused until 1285, the year of the death of Charles I.

Castel Nuovo

Museum of Castel Nuovo
The Civic Museum of Castel Nuovo is located inside of the castle, also known as Maschio Angioino.

The first room is composed by the Palatine Chapel (dedicated to St. Sebastian and Santa Barbara), dating back to 1307 and unique property remained in the castle of the first phase of construction of the Angevin period. The Chapel has a Renaissance portal with reliefs (Nativity and Madonna and Angels of Eagle Andrea and Francesco Laurana), with a rose window designed by Matteo Forcimanya belonging to the Catalan school.

Inside there are paintings of Giotto, decorative leftovers attributed to Maso di Banco and a fifteenth-century ciborium by Jacopo della Pila. There are also kept other cycles of frescoes from the fourteenth century castle Dodge Casaluce and the fourteenth-century ciborium of San Gennaro extra Moenia.

Of particular importance are the valuable sculptures made by artists who also worked arc of Aragon Alfonso triumphant (XV century), examples of the Neapolitan Renaissance. Between these two Enthroned Madonna with Child Francesco Laurana , one of which also called Madonna del Passero, from St. Augustine to the Mint.

The interior of the chapel had frescos by Giotto, executed in 1330, which resumed the Stories of the Old and New Testaments. The content of this cycle of frescoes is almost entirely lost even if there are decorative pieces in the window splays reminiscent of those of the Bardi Chapel in Santa Croce in Florence. Finally they exposed silver items which made up a large part of the furnishings of the church of the Santissima Annunziata Maggiore, among which Baroque chandeliers.

Upon entering the room, you immediately notice a tub of suburban villa, the fifth century, covered with white marble slabs on which fits the curtain wall Angevin. The oldest part of such finds, dating the first century BC, is located in the eastern part of the hall and is represented by an apse that opens into five semicircular niches. The most likely hypothesis is that it is a pool belonging to a villa at the time, probably that of Licinius Lucullus.

several dozens of graves were also discovered, dating back to the period when the area assumed the role of the necropolis (VI-XII century), with minimal grave goods and some personal items such as rings, earrings and a pair of bronze spurs decorated a feline.

On the first floor you can admire paintings of the fifteenth century from St Eligius Maggiore as a Madonna and Child with Saints and numerous tables of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as a Death of St. Joseph of Paolo De Matteis .

The Saint Nicholas in Glory, signed and dated 1658 by Luca Giordano , comes from St. Nicholas church in the Nile; The Miracle of Saint John of God Francesco Solimena comes from the church of Santa Maria della Pace; The Adoration of the Magi sixteenth was performed for the Palatine chapel of the castle by Marco Cardisco who follow the lesson of Raphael, depicted in the painting the portraits of Ferdinand I, Alfonso II and Charles V in place of the Magi. Finally, there are the paintings of the Neapolitan school of the seventeenth century, including paintings by Mattia Preti and Domenichino .

On the second floor are preserved paintings nineteenth and twentieth century now owned by the City of Naples. Sculptures are also on display Vincenzo Gemito and also the works of Francesco Jerace part of Jerace donation, which occurred right in favor of the City.

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Museum of Castel Nuovo

Castel Capuano is a castle in Naples, southern Italy. It takes its name from the fact that it was at that point in the city walls where the road led out to the city of Capua. The castle is at the southwest end of via dei Tribunali, and until recently housed the Naples Hall of Justice, which has now moved to the new Civic Center, the Centro Direzionale.

The structure was built in the 12th century by William I, the son of Roger II of Sicily, the first monarch of the Kingdom of Naples. It was expanded by Frederick II of Hohenstaufen and became one of his royal palaces. On 19 August 1432, Sergianni Caracciolo was stabbed by four knights in the service of the queen in his room in Castel Capuano.

In the 16th century, under the Spanish viceroyship of Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, all of the city's various legal offices and departments were consolidated here and it became the Hall of Justice - known as the "Vicaria" - the basements of which served as a prison. Over the entrance to the castle, the arms of Emperor Charles V, who visited Naples in 1535, are still visible.

The castle has undergone many restorations, one as recent as 1860, and no longer retains much of its original appearance. The Colonna della Vicaria, a simple column on a pillar, once stood in front of the entrance; it was used to disgrace and punish debtors. At the rear exterior of the building, facing Piazza Enrico de Nicola, is the Fontana del Formiello.