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Castello della Monica
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Castello della Monica is the rebuilding of an earlier medieval building, the Church of San Venancio. The reconstruction takes place during the 800 project of the Gennaro Monica, Teramo artist who wanted to erect a building that would express the flavor of paintings of the eighteenth century and the sensitivity of Romanticism enriched with examples of neo-Gothic art, popular at the time. The castle became the home of his creator that there Ubico his study that received a huge amount of its projects and studies. The buildings that helped him in time, created a realistic medieval village, located in an isolated place with respect to the center of the city, but unfortunately the subsequent manufacturing building belittle this romantic seclusion.
Location
Teramo
Italy
Abruzzo
42.6402
13.6948
486.98
Contact
Province of Teramo
Additional information
Cultural tourism
cultural attraction