Castel Del Monte The 13th-century Emperor of the Holy Roman
Empire, Frederick II. was a scholar and an architect .He
influenced Italian Politics, Religion, Art, and Literature. He
knew Arabic as well as Latin, and he was influenced by the
crusade into the Arabic world. He built the Castel Del Monte in
the 1240s. The mysterious, singular, southern Italian fortress
displays the Mediterranean culture of the Middle Ages and
corresponds to the intricacies of Arab geometry circulating in
North Africa at the time. It stands a masterpiece of mediaeval
architecture and truly extraordinary in the history of European
architecture. “Star of the Murgia,” “Crown of Apulia,” “Stone
Flower,” Imperial Gem” these are some of the epithets for this
monument whose geometric perfection has been the cause of many
liters of ink spent by many scholars and historians who still
are pondering for the usage of such a structure those days and
the purpose behind it’s construction . The castle, along with
the town of Andria, was a part of t