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WHO
WE
ARE
La Dimora di Federico
is a refined and graceful Bed & Breakfast,
where you can spend a pleasant holiday appreciating seaside, history,
culture and tradition. It is situated in a little
town, not far from the heart of the Baroque of Lecce and from the beautiful
seaside resort of the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea.
THE
NAME
IN
THE
STORY
:
FREDERICK
II OF
SWABIA
Fascinating
person, great polical, warrior, philosopher, architect e literary. Frederick
was born in 1194 (26 Dicember) at Iesi. His mother, Costance
D'Altavilla,
was the daughter of Ruggero II , king of
Sicily, and his father Henry IV was the son of Frederick I Barbarossa. He was only four years
old when he became King of Sicily, Duke of Puglia and Prince of Capua.
Constance named the pope Innocent
III as Frederick’s guardian . Young Frederick became King in 1208;
during his reign he founded the first public university, he also gave a
start to the Medical School Of Salerno, from Melfi he proclaimed the
constitutions that became the spine of a centralized State and near Andria,
in Puglia, he built the famous Castel del Monte. Frederick died in 1250
near S. Severo, in Castel Fiorentino.
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