The Castle in Rocca Calascio
L'AQUILA - In 1254 the inhabitants of the popular 99 castles were reunited by Conrad IV thanks to an executive diploma issued by Frederic II from Swabia: it stated the construction of the city, which was probably named after the village Acculi.
Suspended between sky and earth to 1500 meters altitude, up to a few decades back the more elevated inhabited center of Abruzzo, Rocca Calascio, today, alive only of its ghosts. It is one of the best-preserved castles in Italy.
Its unbelievable position, here, aloft among the mountains, doesn't allow anymore intersection with ours today's human routs.
Its history belongs by now all to the Middle Age, a dilated middle age, lasted on the Abruzzi mountains since almost to the thresholds of ours ages. (Calascio, 1500 mt).