Castel Sant Angelo

Castel Sant Angelo, additionally referred to as Forte Sant Angelo, is a citadel in Licata, Sicily. It turned into at the beginning built as a watchtower inside the 1580s, and changed into expanded right into a castle between 1615 and 1640. Today, the fort is in desirable circumstance and is open to the general public. Castel Sant Angelo is positioned at the top of Monte Sant Angelo, a hill 130 m above sea stage, overlooking the city to the north and its harbor to the south. Several archaeological sites which include stays of a Hellenistic settlement may be discovered in the vicinity.

The first fortification to be constructed on Monte Sant Angelo changed into a watchtower, which was built between 1583 and 1585 at the orders of Viceroy Marcantonio Colonna. The tower becomes designed by using the army engineer Camillo Camilliani. In 1615, Hernando Petigno, the overall commander of the Royal Cavalry of Sicily and Military Governor of Syracuse, started out constructing a castle at the website online, incorporating the tower because the castle's preserve. Construction changed into halted, but it was resumed in 1636 and completed in 1640 underneath the path of Serpione Cottone, Marquis d Altamura.