Santa Severina ....The Stone Ship
Hecataeus of Miletus, historian and geographer of the fifth century. BC documents the origins of Santa Severina included among the cities with the name of dell'Enotria Siberene. The city experienced the domination Byzantine, Arab, Norman, Swabian, Angevin and Aragonese. Was enfeoffed in 1496 and elevated to the county, then assigned to Andrea Carafa, which was followed by their descendants. The lordship passed to Ruffo, Sculco and Greuther up to the abolition of feudalism in 1806, then the city followed the fate of the Kingdom of Naples. This, in short, the story of Santa Severina eventful happened in over two thousand players who have seen kings and princes, strategists and generals, counts and dukes whose ghosts now haunt the ramparts and the towers of the monumental castle. For several years is part of "The Most Beautiful Villages of Italy".
Santa Severina Castle