Carmine Castle

The Carmine Castle (Italian: Castello del Carmine) was a castle in Naples, Italy. It was one of the fortifications built by the Spaniards under viceroy Pedro Álvarez de Toledo in the mid-16th century as part of the Spanish plans to surround the city with walls and forts. It stood at what was then the south-east corner of the walled city, that wall then turning in to the north. The fortress had great strategic value in the military history of the city up to and including the defense of the Neapolitan Republic of 1799 against the returning royalist forces of King Ferdinand IV. The castle was partially demolished in 1900 as part of Naples' great urban renewal to make room for a road along the sea. Two towers and fragmentary ruins still stand as historic markers.

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Carmine Castle ranks #2844 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #228 of the 350 mapped in Italia. Fundado en 1382, más antiguo que el 59% de los monumentos datados del atlas — one of 346 atlas entries founded in the siglo XIV. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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