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THE ARABIC CASTLE NORMAN

The Arab geographer Idrisi, who lived in the time of Count Roger, is the first to inform us: "No castle is stronger than site - reports - or better to build this here, which encircles around a ditch cut into the mountain. You enter the castle by a wooden bridge that rises and goes back as you want. "Adds the geographer that it was the annexe of a more important manor, said Calathamet (Castello dei Bagni), which stood on a rock called Al Hammah. This name derives from the presence of a source of thermal water that flowed near.

The latter still Idrisi said that "people take baths in this water that is the right heat, sweet and gentle. Nearby flowing rivers and the rivers that turn several mills... '. Little remains of the ruins of this city that stood on the hill overlooking the gorge from which flows the source itself.

Today the castle has been restored, and not only in the physical sense: the old structure has been restored, the concept of "protection", the idea of "preserving" that now, breaking down every drawbridge imaginary, opens to the outside world by unveiling the generous nature of an entire town: today the castle is a museum with the task of passing on "The Memory of the Mediterranean".

Fonte: sito comune Castellammare del Golfo