Castel del Monte

Frederick II's octagonal hunting castle, built in the 1240s in the middle of nowhere, on a hilltop in the Murgia. Eight sides, eight towers, eight rooms per floor — the geometry is mathematical and slightly unsettling, and nobody fully knows what it was for. Forty minutes inside is enough. The drive across the Murgia, all stone walls and trulli and almond trees, is the better half.

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