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Castle tour - Monte San Giovanni Campano MSGC - Saint Thomas of Aquinas Prison

Castle tour of Monte San Giovanni Campano -Also the Prison of Saint Thomas of Aquinas. Destination: Italy, ..Update: the musician with the initials on the piano and furniture was Maestro Pietro Mascagni... From airport Leonardo da Vinci. Drive South 56 miles to my native town (MSGC) Monte San Giovanni Campano, it is a municipality of about 12,800 people, it is part of the province of Frosinone in the region Lazio. I lived just a few miles outside of town in a small suburb called La Lucca. Today we will tour the 11th-century fortress, its located at the highest point of the town Monte San Giovanni Campano. The area dates back to the last years of the Roman Empire and the original Castle was built to defend against Barbarians that kept coming in and out of the area. The castle is best known today as the place where Saint Thomas Aquinas was imprisoned by his family from 1240 to 1242 in an attempt to persuade him not to join the Dominican Order. It was also a summer residence of Pope Adrian IV starting in 1155, and where the poet Vittoria Colonna would retreat. On April 17th, 2004 Cardinal Ratzinger, Later Pope Benedict, visited the Castello where St Thomas was held and the Town of Monte San Giovanni Campano. The castle is distinguished by two towers, one quadrangular and the other is pentagonal. The pentagonal shape is very unusual in castles of this type. The towers are a good example of 11th century defensive architecture. Remaining walls are 3.5 meters thick, with two bartizans, double-width patrol walks, and communications passages within the walls. The rooms in which Thomas Aquinas had been held are at the base of the rectangular tower. These are remnants of a larger defensive structure that once included five towers and walls that entirely enclosed a ducal palace and supporting town. The palace was a home of the Conte D'Aquino at the time of his son's imprisonment. The castle town could hold more than a thousand defenders and had been for centuries one of the most efficient and impregnable fortresses of central Italy, famous for reputedly withstanding a siege of seven years. It could not, however, resist the gunpowder artillery that Charles VIII of France used during his conquest of the Kingdom of Naples in 1494. Monte San Giovanni, then a border fort of Naples, fell after eight hours of bombardment. The 700 inhabitants including women and children who were unable to escape were slaughtered by the French army of 25,000. Much of the town was destroyed in the attack of 1494. Only two of five main towers and two of the five palace buildings remain, along with three of the town gates. The rooms in which Thomas Aquinas had been held were saved and restored and the cell now holds a 16th-century Neapolitan triptych. Music: Pavane from Power Director 12, SmartSound. Clear Vision from Power Director 12, SmartSound. Produced with CyberLink PowerDirector 12 Music: PAVANE by Smart Sound. Copyright Free with the purchase of Cyberlink PowerDirector 12. Credits: Amiens98, for pictures of the Castle Google maps Bing Maps Wikipidia Agnes Preszler: Birdseye view of the Castle