Castle Argon

Today we visited the Aragon Castle of Ischia …

So I will begin by saying we thought we were on highway to heaven,on Sunday in Corfu well this castle was definitely the stairway to heaven ..just when we thought it can’t go any higher it did go on & on all up hill ! You could hear both Chuck & I saying this was the best 12 euros we spent ! Along with this isn’t a place for faint of heart . Truly a massive structure built in 474 BC lots of history ..hosted families ,convents & 13 church’s once the danger of pirates was over around 1750.. folks moved to the island of Ischai .1809 the English besieged held by the French shelled it almost destroying it . In 1823 Ferdinand king of Naples expelled the last 30 inhabitants and transformed the castle into a prison for lifers. In 1851 the castle became a political prison in 1860 with the arrival of Garibadi in Naples the political prision was suppressed & Ischai became part of Italy
As we were leaving it appeared we might be in a labyrinth. Signs saying exit but none appeared . At one point the so called exit took us UP again …it was at this point Chuck suggested we might just have to scale the wall !Læs mere