Castello Aragonese, Ischia, Campania, Italy

After our walk around Ischia we jumped back in the tender to head to Castelo Aragonese, a castle in ruins. There were some pretty ominous rain clouds on the way over, but it stayed dry and by the time we left the sun had cleared and there was some great light.  It's been a fortess in one form or another from the 400s BC when the Greeks occupied it.  The view is pretty impressive.  I wouldn't have wanted to be here from 1575 to 1810 when the castle was inhabited by Clarisse nuns.  When one of the nuns would die the others would put her body in a stone chair with a hole in the bottom to catch the, uh drippings.  Over the next year while the body decomposed the nuns would stay prayers in the room with the bodys.  Needless to say this spread disease, which in turn produced more bodies.... not a good cycle to be in.