City Walls
Vico del Gargano is an ancient city that has a double boundary wall. The innermost seems to date back to before 1000. The perimeter embraces the bumps of two neighboring hills, the outermost outer of which dominates the Valle dell’Asciatizzi which constitutes the access road to the sea. The walls are reinforced by about 22 circular towers. In 1674 the city was sacked by the Turks, although a battalion of the viceroy commanded by the Marquis of Astorga resided in the walls. Under Calvo III a period of peace was established in the mid-eighteenth century. In this climate, in 1759, the Accademia degli eccitati arose in Vico, dealing with solving the most difficult scientific problems of that time.
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