{"id":30091,"date":"2023-09-26T09:55:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T07:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/castello-di-monreale\/"},"modified":"2023-09-26T09:55:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T07:55:29","slug":"castello-di-monreale","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/en\/place\/castello-di-monreale\/","title":{"rendered":"Castello di Monreale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Monreale Castle stands on a hill formation<strong> south of Sardara<\/strong>; an area which strategically offered an <strong>extensive view over the surrounding valley<\/strong>. The <strong>castle<\/strong> was built between <strong>1206<\/strong> and<strong> 1309<\/strong>, to <strong>defend<\/strong> <strong>the border<\/strong> between the Giudicato di Arborea and the Giudicato di Cagliari; it was part of a defence line which also incorporated the castles of Marmilla and Arcuentu.<\/p>\n<p>Following the <strong>fall of the dominations into the hands of the Hispanics<\/strong>, the castle lost its defensive function and in the XV century became part of the properties of the <strong>Counts of Quirra<\/strong>. Following the death of the last family heir, the castle fell into a state of <strong>abandonment<\/strong>, while the population of the town moved to nearby Sardara.<\/p>\n<p>The fortified complex included the quadrangular <strong>fortified tower<\/strong>, the <strong>defence wall<\/strong> with eight quadrangular and semi-circular defence <strong>towers<\/strong>, wells and <strong>cisterns<\/strong>, different service rooms and the <strong>town<\/strong> below. The layout of the entire defence wall is still visible to this day; the perimeter walls of the castle, however, are still standing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6120,"template":"","tipologia":[983],"categoria":[1023],"tematica":[1029,1030],"class_list":["post-30091","place","type-place","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tipologia-castello-en","categoria-architectural-asset","tematica-archeology","tematica-architecture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Castello di Monreale - Idese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/castello-di-monreale\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Castello di Monreale - Idese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Monreale Castle stands on a hill formation south of Sardara; an area which strategically offered an extensive view over the surrounding valley. 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