Swabian-Angevin-Aragonese Castle
Wanted by Manfred of Sicily at the time of the founding of the city, the castle is the result of several changes, additions and renovations during different eras. Originally the structure was a square with a wall with five towers and a square (four corners and a presumably on the north-east from the central door). Currently there are only four of those towers of which only the south-east has maintained the original square shape, while the other three have been merged into cylindrical structures. Swabian brand of clear, the first castle was completed by Charles I of Anjou.
In Aragonese period witnessed a radical transformation of the complex, as part of an overall project of fortification of the defensive structures of the major coastal cities. It was in fact willing to build a new curtain wall enclosing the original structure and has a slight tilt to the slope to make it more responsive to the needs arising from use of the art defense artillery soldier. At the corners are four cylindrical towers built lower than those inside. After the attack in 1528 the French marshal Lautrec the tower's north-west bastion was modified by incorporating the previous structure to a cylindrical shape. The other three towers were interested in the project of fortification, but this was never completed. In 1620 the castle attack of the Turks had to capitulate because of the paucity of guns and why no protective railings are sufficiently high to ensure the safety of defenders.
During the eighteenth century the building was used as barracks and the great bastion in prison. During the reign of the Bourbons, and in the subsequent period until 1884 the castle was held in efficiency as Manfredonia is regarded as a stronghold . From 1888 until 1901, when the building was purchased by the town of Manfredonia, belonged to the orphanage military in Naples.
In 1968, Presidential Decree of June 21 No 952, the castle was donated by the City's commitment to the State, by the latter, set up inside a museum to preserve artifacts from the surrounding area. The current Archeological Museum stele dating Daunian VIII-VI century BC).
religious architecture
Cathedral Cathedral Manfredonia
Named after the city's patron saint Lorenzo Maiorano, who was bishop of Siponto between the late fifth century and the middle of the sixth, was built between 1270 and the 1274, but only moved there in 1324 the diocesan chapter. In 1620 it was destroyed by the Ottomans. The present building dates from the episcopate of Antonio Marullo (1643-1648). It preserves the relics of the patron saint of the city and some works of art in the twentieth century shifted from other churches in the area, including the ancient icon of Our Lady of Siponto, polychrome wooden statue of the Byzantine Madonna said eyed or The Sipontina and powerful thirteenth century wooden crucifix.
Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore Siponto
built over an early Christian church (itself a reworking of a classical temple), the church is evidenced by the 1117 and acquitted functions Siponto Cathedral until 1323. It looks like a building in Romanesque style with a square, built over a crypt which reproduces the structure. For security reasons, the main vestments including the icon of Our Lady of Siponto and the statue of the Madonna eyed are now kept in the cathedral town. In 1977 he erected a minor basilica.
Abbey of San Leonardo
Both the portal is kept outside a series of sculptures and bas-reliefs depicting biblical and significant elements of medieval mysticism.
Church of San Domenico
The chapel, made of an apse, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, adjoining the Church of San Domenico and the Convent of the Friars Preachers was prepared by Charles II of Anjou in 1294. After the devastation of 1620 by the Turks, the complex was rebuilt shortly after the old building. The new design reduced the eighteenth-century church with a nave, as it appears today. The side walls of the nave are filled with six altars in Baroque style, although within the Church are numerous references to the Romanesque, the Gothic facade has been restored and its rose restored in 1960, and the old chapel preserves four precious wall frescoes of the fourteenth century.
Convent of Santa Maria della Vittoria
Built in 1571 and destroyed by the Turks in 1620, was rebuilt in 1662. In the title commemorates the victory of the Christians against the Turks in the naval battle of Lepanto in the same year of the foundation. Here in 1575 he converted St. Camillus de Lellis who lived in the novitiate. In 1811 the monastery was closed down and incorporated in the present with the adjoining church cemetery. Among the surviving rooms, the more attractive is the cloister.
Church of the Holy Family Parish Holy Family
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Founded in 1982, is characterized by the majestic Ambrose Zamparo mosaic artist, depicting the Nativity, the Trinity, Christ, New Jerusalem, the Baptism of Jesus and scenes from the Gospels. The wooden icon of the crucifix is \u200b\u200bthe work of Matt Mangano. Other churches
- Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Stella Maris
- Church of San Camillo de Lellis
- Church of St. Charles Borromeo Church of San Giuseppe
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- Church of San Michele Arcangelo
- Church of Santa Maria del Carmine
- Holy Spirit Church of the Holy Redeemer Church
- Holy Trinity Church of the Holy Saviour Church
- Church of Santa Maria Regina
- Church of Santa Maria del Grano
- Church of Corpus Christi Church of San Benedetto
- Church of St. Francis of Assisi
- St. Andrew's Church
- Church of San Francesco da Paola
- Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie Church of San Matteo
Buildings Civil
Palazzo San Domenico
located in Piazza del Popolo, is the town hall. Characterized by a colonnade and loggia, was the convent of the Dominicans, who at the end of the thirteenth century until the Napoleonic era lived in the officiating in the adjoining Church (Church of San Domenico).
Palace Mettola
Archdiocese Of course Manfredi and so was the Family De Florio, which remembers Sister Antonia, who in 1592 turned his home in the convent of Poor Clares.
De Palazzo Nicastro
The building, in late Baroque style, stands on a forum. In this building had its birth the musician and historian Michael Bellucci (1849-1944).
Palazzo Della Gloves
in Via San Lorenzo, in late baroque style. This palace was inhabited in 1432 by the Teutonic Knights of St. Leonard. It is characterized in the central part by an elegant porch with vaulted ceilings in columns that dominate the entrance archway to. Inside is a lovely courtyard with stairs leading to the porch, where he kept a wooden crucifix of the eighteenth century witnessed a popular tradition. After a jump of more than three centuries came to the family of the Marquis of gloves.
Palace Celestini
Ongoing Manfredi, since 1350 the Celestine monastery was changed into an abbey in 1657. In the eighteenth century was demolished and rebuilt according to the dictates of the Baroque that is admired today. In 1813 it was granted to the City by Joachim Murat to use the Town Hall. After recent restoration work is now the seat of the Civic Libraries and unified 's Municipal Auditorium .
Palazzo De Florio
patrician villa in the Baroque style, was built by wealthy merchants Siponto in contact with Lorenzo the Magnificent and the European merchants of the Renaissance. The arcade, dating back to the palace of pure classical line, consists of a series of arches on pillars insistent rectangular frames with simple tax. Everything is covered by a series of vaults.
Palace of Saints
In via Santa Maria delle Grazie, dating from the eighteenth century. This building features a finely carved stone portal in the form and elegant rococo balustrade continuous perimeter wall that overlooks the first floor balcony with valuable solution corner. Hosted Ferdinand II, King of Sicily in 1859.
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