Cippico Castle
Encyclopedia
Cippico Castle is a castle
in Kaštel Novi
, a town within the administrative area of Kaštela
in Dalmatia
, Croatia
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, built a fortified summer residence with inclined ground-floor walls and an adjoining fortified village for his labourers from the villages below Mount Kozjak.
Castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble...
in Kaštel Novi
Kaštel Novi
Kaštel Novi is a town within the administrative area of Kaštela in Dalmatia, Croatia. Its name means New Castle.-The town of Kaštela:The town of Kaštela is located on the coast of the Bay of Kaštela. It has over 40 000 inhabitants, and it is the second largest town in the Split and Dalmatia County...
, a town within the administrative area of Kaštela
Kaštela
Kaštela is a series of seven towns in central Dalmatia, located northwest of Split, west of Solin and east of Trogir, in Croatia. They are part of the Split-Dalmatia county and are treated as a single city with a population of 38,474 , although they are individually between 3,000 and 7,000...
in Dalmatia
Dalmatia
Dalmatia is a historical region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It stretches from the island of Rab in the northwest to the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. The hinterland, the Dalmatian Zagora, ranges from fifty kilometers in width in the north to just a few kilometers in the south....
, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
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History
In 1512, Pavao Antun Cippico, a nobleman from TrogirTrogir
Trogir is a historic town and harbour on the Adriatic coast in Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia, with a population of 12,995 and a total municipality population of 13,322 . The historic city of Trogir is situated on a small island between the Croatian mainland and the island of Čiovo...
, built a fortified summer residence with inclined ground-floor walls and an adjoining fortified village for his labourers from the villages below Mount Kozjak.