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After the Arabic domination, in Sicily a series
of foreign dominations was ollowed ognuna di.le which has left in the
island one own trace. The defeat of the Arabs was operated from
the normanni that they governed for approximately a century, before
leaving the place the angioini. The angioini they were to they
time overwhelmed from the Aragoneses who reigned for approximately
three centuries rendering of fact the closely tied Sicily to the
Spanish crown. During all these dominations the several
activities of Vendicari do not have never have been interrupted.
The activity of extraction continued of knows them, therefore
as the peach and the working of tonni and also the business activities
them is pure with some difficulty maintained one sure importance.
This last one,
 had a bending for a transitory
period, when the insabbiamento of the foce was taken place of the
Sichilli marsh, that it was the entry point to the points of berthing
to the inside of the same marsh. In this period the splendor
and the pr0sperity of the area endured a hard blow, and gradually
provoked to the loss of the autonomy of the area of Respensa (some hypotheses think Respensa the toponimo
that it identified in those centuries the area of Citadel) to favor of
the near city of Famous that in those years it always saw more to
extend just the dominion on all the area to south of Siracusa.
For this reason, considering a similar event like not
exceptional, sight the detritus amount that came pours to you in the
lagoon from the Sichilli torrent, the harbour activity of Vendicari
came little more transferred to north, in correspondence of the
location puts into effect them of the Sveva Tower. In the first
years of 1400, once again the scettro of Sicily it changed of hand,
passing from the Angioini to the Aragoneses with the monarch Alfonso V
 the Magnanimous one whom of lì to little years also the
Reign of Naples creating of fact would have conquered the Reign of the
two Sicilie. This was the age of pirati the Saraceni and
Barbareschi, than with their continuous raids they plundered centers
systematically inhabits and campaigns to you of the island. For
this reason us yields soon account that was necessary to construct of
the fortifications that could reject and signal these incursions.
Then the Duca di Noto, hereditary prince Peter Of Aragon,
brother of the monarch Alfonso V, gave the way to the construction of
the Tower that today dominates the landscape of Vendicari. But
it must attend still a century before that the tower assumes the
aspect that it has still today, when a restructure and an ulterior
fortification were ordered from the Viceré Giovanni De Vega.
Fortifications nacquero in order of the sort scattered a po'
wherever in the island, but they were not sufficient to check the
incursions of the Barberians. It was necessary, in fact, that
all these scattered towers here and here, were organized as an only
defensive body, in a position to making to quickly bounce the news of
a sight to the aim of being able to organize one defended more
effective soldier. Just for this purpose Giovanni De Vega gave
order to plan a defensive system, more not devised like an only
isolated and independent structure, but as a series of structures in
continuous contact one with the other. |
This plan was entrusted to
Tiburzio
Spannocchi
which the island circumnavigated all in
order to characterize the existing structures, the participations to
execute in order to restructure them and the points in which the new
towers of sight had to rise.
It was in this phase that the Tower of Vendicari endured
one radical restructure. All the advanced order was constructed
and was fortified walls them and the terrace that had the arduous task
to resist the weight of the guns and to absorb the force of collision
caused from their explosion. The Tower of Vendicari divenne
therefore between most powerful than all the Sicily, in fact its fire
power was constituted from very four guns that could talk nonsense
project them from 12 ounces. Only others 2 in all the Sicily
had a such ability all the others did not arrive to six ounces.
In nearly all the Towers sicialian were present 3 lookouts
while in that one of vendicari ce of they wanted at least 4. The new system of fortification, consisted in signaling
from a tower to the other the sight of pirateschi boat vessels,
through uses it of marks them of day smoke and of heated twigs of
night, that they came raises a number to you of equal times to the
boat vessels sights to you. With this system some historians
have assumed that the news went around of the island in less than 1
hour. But although that, and the remarkable efforts of viceré
the Giovanni De Vega the Sicily continued to endure the barbaric raids
since the number of towers was not still sufficient. An
ulterior potenziamento of the entire system was necessary that
stavolta was entrusted Camilliani architect.
 Camillo
Camilliani repeated to inverse the inspection of its predeccessore and
to the cospetto of the Tower of Vendicari it pined on its registry:
"From aforesaid the Perrere (Tower of the Island of Head Sparrow) to the tower of Vendicari is miles a five and third
party. This bià tower is in inspection, ET us did not lack
other, than ET is made astraco, to raise the parapets insino to the
destined proportione, and complita that a public square will be
haverà amplissima, where that any artillery piece will be able to be
adapted of sop.a, why she it is much fort and gagliarda with good
shoulders, and strong dammusi.Però at the moment not is guard, and
like s' is said ended, that correspondence with the tower of stampace
will be havrà, and with the tower of the Perrere. And as far
as the good effect, than fà said Tower to that place for respect of
the loader, and commertio it is clearest not to be able itself to
improve in the book of the made Towers if of fà its demostrazione ".
The use of the Towers of defense is continued
until XIX the century, until the invention of the telegraph that ended
in order to supplant the lookouts and provoked graduates them decline
of these splendid structures.
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