{"id":14486,"date":"2026-05-23T12:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/?p=14486"},"modified":"2026-10-15T23:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:06:29","slug":"castel-del-monte-apulia-italia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/italy\/apulia\/castel-del-monte-apulia-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Castel del Monte, Apulia, Italia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Castel del Monte se alza solitario en una colina de unos 540 metros en las Murge, a unos 17 km al sur de Andria, y se divisa desde lejos en la campi\u00f1a de Apulia. El emperador Federico II lo mand\u00f3 construir a partir de 1240 aproximadamente: su carta del 29 de enero de 1240, que ordenaba preparar materiales para un castillo junto a la iglesia de Santa Maria del Monte, es la primera menci\u00f3n, y el edificio probablemente segu\u00eda sin terminar cuando muri\u00f3 en 1250. Su funci\u00f3n sigue siendo objeto de debate. Nunca fue una verdadera fortaleza, sin foso ni puente levadizo, y las teor\u00edas van desde un pabell\u00f3n de caza hasta un s\u00edmbolo del poder imperial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El castillo est\u00e1 construido en torno al n\u00famero ocho. Un edificio octogonal con una torre octogonal en cada esquina rodea un patio octogonal, y cada una de sus dos plantas tiene ocho salas trapezoidales con b\u00f3vedas de crucer\u00eda. En algunas torres suben escaleras de caracol de 44 pelda\u00f1os. Los constructores usaron piedra caliza local, brecha coralina roja y m\u00e1rmol, y la portada principal, en el lado este, tiene un front\u00f3n cl\u00e1sico sobre pilastras acanaladas. En los siglos siguientes el castillo sirvi\u00f3 de prisi\u00f3n, se vendi\u00f3 a la familia Carafa y despu\u00e9s qued\u00f3 abandonado y despojado de sus m\u00e1rmoles, hasta que el Estado italiano lo compr\u00f3 en 1876 por 25 000 liras. Es Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO desde 1996 y aparece en la moneda italiana de 1 c\u00e9ntimo de euro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Informaci\u00f3n para visitantes y consejos de viaje<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A ticket costs \u20ac10; visitors aged 18 to 24 pay \u20ac2 and under-18s enter free. A combined ticket with the Swabian Castle of Trani costs \u20ac15, and entry is free on the first Sunday of the month. The castle is open every day except 1 January and 25 December: from 1 April to 30 September from 10:00 to 18:45, and from 1 October to 31 March from 9:00 to 17:45, with last entry 45 minutes before closing. The rooms are almost empty, so the visit is mainly about the architecture, the courtyard and the views; allow about an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the car parks below the hill (about \u20ac5 per car), a shuttle bus runs up to the castle for \u20ac2 return, or you can walk up through the pine woods. The hilltop has little shade, so on summer afternoons it gets very hot; spring, autumn or an early visit are more comfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castel del Monte is roughly an hour\u2019s drive from Bari via the SP231 and SP234. Without a car, take a train to Andria and then city bus line 6 from the bus terminal in Piazza Marinai d\u2019Italia, which runs to the castle in about 45 minutes for \u20ac1.50 per ride; buy the ticket before boarding. A taxi from Andria is the alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Castel del Monte, el castillo octogonal de Federico II en una colina cerca de Andria, es Patrimonio de la UNESCO; la entrada cuesta 10 \u20ac y un autob\u00fas lanzadera sube desde el aparcamiento.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1091,977,980,965,1077],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apulia","category-architecture","category-castles","category-italy","category-unesco-heritage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17128,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions\/17128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}