{"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-pouilles-italie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/italy\/apulia\/castel-del-monte-apulia-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Castel del Monte, Pouilles, Italie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Castel del Monte se dresse seul sur une colline d\u2019environ 540 m\u00e8tres dans les Murges, \u00e0 quelque 17 km au sud d\u2019Andria, et se voit de loin dans la campagne des Pouilles. L\u2019empereur Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric II le fit construire \u00e0 partir de 1240 environ : sa lettre du 29 janvier 1240 ordonnant de pr\u00e9parer les mat\u00e9riaux d\u2019un ch\u00e2teau pr\u00e8s de l\u2019\u00e9glise Santa Maria del Monte en est la plus ancienne mention, et l\u2019\u00e9difice n\u2019\u00e9tait probablement pas achev\u00e9 \u00e0 sa mort en 1250. Sa fonction reste d\u00e9battue. Ce ne fut jamais une vraie forteresse, sans foss\u00e9 ni pont-levis, et les hypoth\u00e8ses vont du pavillon de chasse au symbole du pouvoir imp\u00e9rial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le ch\u00e2teau est construit autour du chiffre huit. Un b\u00e2timent octogonal flanqu\u00e9 d\u2019une tour octogonale \u00e0 chaque angle entoure une cour octogonale, et chacun des deux \u00e9tages compte huit salles trap\u00e9zo\u00efdales vo\u00fbt\u00e9es d\u2019ar\u00eates. Des escaliers en colima\u00e7on de 44 marches montent dans certaines tours. Les b\u00e2tisseurs ont employ\u00e9 le calcaire local, la br\u00e8che corallienne rouge et le marbre, et le portail principal, \u00e0 l\u2019est, pr\u00e9sente un fronton classique sur des pilastres cannel\u00e9s. Au fil des si\u00e8cles, le ch\u00e2teau servit de prison, fut vendu \u00e0 la famille Carafa, puis abandonn\u00e9 et d\u00e9pouill\u00e9 de ses marbres, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 son rachat par l\u2019\u00c9tat italien en 1876 pour 25 000 lires. Il est inscrit au patrimoine mondial de l\u2019UNESCO depuis 1996 et figure sur la pi\u00e8ce italienne de 1 centime d\u2019euro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Informations pratiques et conseils de voyage<\/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, le ch\u00e2teau octogonal de Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric II sur une colline pr\u00e8s d\u2019Andria, est inscrit \u00e0 l\u2019UNESCO ; le billet co\u00fbte 10 \u20ac et une navette monte depuis le parking.<\/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\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17128,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions\/17128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}