{"id":7011,"date":"2020-04-01T14:54:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T14:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/besun.formabilitycpp.com\/?page_id=7011"},"modified":"2021-01-29T18:54:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T18:54:32","slug":"castello-di-donnafugata","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lechiavidegliiblei.it\/en\/castello-di-donnafugata\/","title":{"rendered":"Castello di Donnafugata"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Castello di Donnafugata\n<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Castello di Donnafugata is one of the most important historic sites in the South of Sicily; it is well known thanks to the masterpiece \"Il Gattopardo\", and also for the most recent \"Il Commissario Montalbano\".<\/p>

It dates back to the 19th century and it was a noble residence; it is impressive, it has a neo-Gothic facade flanked by two lateral towers, and it covers an area of 2500 square meters.<\/p>

There are different interpretations about the origin of the name: according to the legend it comes from the escape of Queen Bianca of Navarre (widow of King Martin I of Aragon, king of Sicily) who was imprisoned in the castle by Count Cabrera who wanted her as his wife; according to others, the name is the free interpretation and transcription of the Arabic term 'Ayn al-\u1e62i\u1e25\u1e25at (Source of Health) that in Sicilian becomes Ronnafuata, from which the current name; others argue that the name comes from a tragic episode happened in that place: the discovery of a female body died for suffocation (in fact, in sicilian \"donna affucata\" means \" suffocated woman\").<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The first construction of the castle seems to be wanted by the Chiaramonte, counts of Modica in the XIV century. In the XV century it may have been one of the residences of Bernardo Cabrera, great executioner of the Kingdom of Sicily. In 1648, the feud was purchased by Vincenzo Arezzo-La Rocca who made it a fortified farm.<\/p>

\u2028After that, it became a neoclassical cottage and after a neo-Gothic castle. Most of the building was built by Baron Corrado Arezzo in the 19th century.<\/p>

The castle boasts over 120 rooms, nowadays only about 20 can be visited; they still have the original furniture of the past, each room had a different function and it was furnished with taste.<\/p>

Some rooms are: the music room, the coats of arms room full of the coats of arms of the Sicilian noble families, the mirrors room, the art gallery with neoclassical paintings.<\/p>

The castle is in a majestic park of 8 hectares, which counted over 1500 plant species and various \"jokes\" wanted by the Baron to entertain his guests: the only one still usable is the labyrinth made with the typical \u201cmuro a secco\u201d, a white stone from Ragusa.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Castello di Donnafugata Ben conosciuto grazie al capolavoro \u201cIl Gattopardo\u201d, ma anche al pi\u00f9 recente \u201cIl Commissario Montalbano\u201d, il Castello di Donnafugata \u00e8 uno dei pi\u00f9 importanti siti della Sicilia Meridionale. Risale all\u2019800 e fu dimora nobiliare; \u00e8 imponente, presenta una facciata in stile neogotico, coronata da due torri laterali, e copre una superficie di […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7011","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nCastello di Donnafugata - I dintorini delle case vacanza Le chiavi degli Iblei<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ben conosciuto grazie al capolavoro \u201cIl Gattopardo\u201d, ma anche al pi\u00f9 recente \u201cIl Commissario Montalbano\u201d, sar\u00e0 facile da raggiungere.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lechiavidegliiblei.it\/en\/castello-di-donnafugata\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Castello di Donnafugata - 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