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Nearest city
  
Ragusa

Phone
  
+39 0932 619333

Province
  
Province of Ragusa

Built
  
14th century

Donnafugata Castle

Location
  
District of Donnafugata, Ragusa, Sicily, Italy

Address
  
Contrada Donnafugata, 97100 Ragusa RG, Italy

Hours
  
Open today · 9AM–1PMFriday9AM–1PMSaturday9AM–1PMSunday9AM–1PM, 2:45–5:30PMMondayClosedTuesday9AM–1PM, 2:45–5:30PMWednesday9AM–1PMThursday9AM–1PM, 2:45–5:30PM

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Donnafugata Castle (Italian: Castello di Donnafugata [kaˈstɛllo di ˌdɔnnafuˈɡaːta]) is located 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) away from Ragusa in Sicily, Italy.

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Although the origins of this place could be traced back to the fourteenth-century most of its current Neo-Classical and Neo-Gothic appearance belongs to the 19th century.

Name origin

There are many local stories that try to explain the origin of the name Donnafugata, which translates from Italian roughly as "fugitive woman" or "woman who fled". Following what the name suggests, one legend claims that Queen Blanche of Navarre, widow of King Martin I of Aragon, was in hiding from Count Bernardo Cabrera, who wanted to marry her and assume leadership over Sicily. She hid in Donnafugata Castle until it was taken under siege by Cabrera, during which Giovanni Moncada helped her flee and hide again in the Steri Palace in Palermo. While this story may be true, it is not from whence the castle's name originates.

It's more likely that the name is the result of a linguistic corruption of the Arabic toponym عين الصحة ('Ayn al-Ṣiḥḥat, i.e. Source of Health). In Sicilian it turns into Ronnafuata, hence the current name.

Modern era

The stone labyrinth was used for the film Tale of Tales.

References

Donnafugata Castle Wikipedia


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