| The Castle of Andria was built by the Normans at the highest point of the city, along the walls and near the gate of that name was demolished in the nineteenth century. During the Swabian period the castle was equipped with a square tower located toward the outside, behind the walls. Later, in the Aragonese period, the tower was surrounded by a polygonal rampart and reduced in height to better withstand the firing of artillery. In the southern part of the castle were built for military housing, then processed in mills by Carafa. In the first half of nineteenth-century the original Norman structure had become private property and turned into houses. In 1827 the polygonal bastion was transformed into the seat of city guards. Then the whole structure became privately owned. In the second half of the nineteenth century the northern part of the bastion was demolished for the construction of a private building. What remains of the castle is now stuck between a nineteenth-century building on the left, built on the Fossate, and a contemporary building on the right. |