ARCHITECT, Italian
(active 1240s in Apulia)

Entrance to the castle

1240
Photo
Castel del Monte, Andria (Puglia)

Castel del Monte (Italian for "Castle of the Mountain") is a 13th-century citadel and castle situated in Andria in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. It stands on a promontory, where it was constructed during the 1240s by the Emperor Frederick II, who had inherited the lands from his mother Constance of Sicily.

The photo shows the classical entrance in the otherwise purely Gothic castle of Frederick II.